4.3

CVE-2016-1955: mozilla firefox

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-1955DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1955
Published 13-03-2016Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-1955 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 2.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.3, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.04%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 6

Timeline

  1. 13-03-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information by reading a Content Security Policy (CSP) violation report that contains path information associated with an IFRAME element.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.04%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

81%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 2.04% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Opensuse2 products
Debian1 product
  • firefox-esr< 45.0esr-1
Mozilla1 product
Novell1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • firefox< 45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

5 vendors · 6 products

References

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