CVE-2016-1939

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.3 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2016-01-31

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Leap (Opensuse)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233784
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06