CVE-2016-9078: mozilla firefox Open Redirect
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-9078 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Open Redirect vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 3Timeline
- 11-06-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Redirection from an HTTP connection to a "data:" URL assigns the referring site's origin to the "data:" URL in some circumstances. This can result in same-origin violations against a domain if it loads resources from malicious sites. Cross-origin setting of cookies has been demonstrated without the ability to read them. Note: This issue only affects Firefox 49 and 50. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.1.
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
1.82%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
78%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
-0.04 pp
From 1.86% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Mozilla1 product
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 50.0.1 | 49.0 | 50.0
Ubuntu1 product
- firefox< 50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | < 50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
2 vendors · 2 products
References
8 links- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1317641X Refsource CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory