VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2822

medium
Published 2016-06-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 allow remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a SELECT element with a persistent menu.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.04 Affected —
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 45.2.0esr-1
sid Fixed 47.0-1
forky Fixed 45.2.0esr-1
bullseye Fixed 45.2.0esr-1
bookworm Fixed 45.2.0esr-1
8.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox45.1.0
mozilla mozillafirefox45.1.1
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"46.0.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.