CVE-2016-2805: mozilla firefox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-2805 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 4.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 8.8, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 11 · Related 4Timeline
- 30-04-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
4.65%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
92%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 4.65% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Mozilla1 product
- firefox38.0 | 38.0.1 | 38.0.5 | 38.1.0 | 38.1.1 | 38.2.0 | 38.2.1 | 38.3.0 | 38.4.0 | 38.5.0 | 38.5.1 | 38.6.0 | 38.6.1 | 38.7.0 | 38.7.1
Ubuntu1 product
- thunderbird< 1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | < 1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
2 vendors · 2 products
References
17 links
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241731X Refsource CONFIRM