8.8

CVE-2016-1968: mozilla firefox Numeric Errors

CVSS: 8.8v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-1968DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1968
Published 13-03-2016Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-1968 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Numeric Errors vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 4.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.14%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1USN-2917-1

Timeline

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

Description

Integer underflow in Brotli, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via crafted data with brotli compression.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 4.14% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
4.14%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian2 products
  • brotli< 0.3.0+dfsg-3
  • firefox-esr< 45.0esr-1
Ubuntu2 products
  • brotli< 0.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1
  • firefox< 45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Mozilla1 product

3 vendors · 5 products

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