CVE-2016-5250

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2016-5250 · Published 05/08/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-5250 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.2%, higher than 82.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`≤ 47.0.1`	No fix yet

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0, Firefox ESR < 45.4 and Thunderbird < 45.4 allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the previously retrieved page via Resource Timing API calls.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html
debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674
mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-84.html · Vendor Advisory
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
securityfocus.com/bid/92260
securitytracker.com/id/1036508
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88

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