A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.2, Firefox ESR < 45.5.1, and Thunderbird < 45.5.1.
History

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:15:00 +0000

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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2023-06-22'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:15:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_0

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 7.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}


Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-07T12:50:23.513Z

Reserved: 2016-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9079

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:42:10.169Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:01.797

Modified: 2025-02-07T13:15:23.947

Link: CVE-2016-9079

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9079 - Bugzilla