CVE-2016-2816

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2016-2816 · Published 30/04/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-2816 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 84.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`≤ 45.0.2`	No fix yet

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism via the multipart/x-mixed-replace content type.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-45.html · Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1035692
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

≤ 45.0.2

No fix yet

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