CVE-2016-5283

HIGH 8.8CVE-2016-5283 · Published 22/09/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-5283 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`≤ 48.0.2`	No fix yet

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted fragment identifier in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, leading to insufficient restrictions on link-color information after a document is resized.

References

mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/93052
securitytracker.com/id/1036852
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

≤ 48.0.2

No fix yet

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