CVE-2016-1939 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox
Opensuse	Leap Opensuse

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:::::::*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1939
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1939
https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2016-01-31T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:10:40.407Z

Reserved: 2016-01-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-1939

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-01-31T18:59:06.027

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-1939

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-01-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1939 - Bugzilla

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