CVE-2016-1939

MEDIUM 5.3CVE-2016-1939 · Published 31/01/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-1939 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`≤ 43.0.4`	No fix yet

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7208.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html · Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1034825
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

≤ 43.0.4

No fix yet

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