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CVE-2016-2813

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2813 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox on Android devices prior to version 46.0. It allows remote attackers to access sensitive orientation and motion sensor data via crafted websites, potentially revealing information about the device's physical environment or even PIN values. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and high confidentiality impact (C:H). There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 45.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0144 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-2813Important

Mozilla: Disclosure of user actions through JavaScript with motion and orientation sensors (MFSA 2016-43)

Apr 26, 2016

References

dl.acm.org / citation.cfm
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-15
mozilla.org / security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-43.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1035692