CVE-2016-9061

HIGH 7.5CVE-2016-9061 · Published 11/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-9061 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 50.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`< 50.0`	`50.0`

Description

A previously installed malicious Android application which defines a specific signature-level permissions used by Firefox can access API keys meant for Firefox only. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions and operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/94337 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1037298 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

< 50.0

50.0

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