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CVE-2016-2820

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2820 describes a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 46.0, specifically within the Firefox Health Reports (FHR) feature. This flaw allows remote attackers to modify user sharing preferences by exploiting insufficient origin restrictions on events within the remote-report IFRAME. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 4.3), it requires user interaction and network access, potentially leading to low integrity impact without affecting confidentiality or availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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-2016-2820Moderate

Mozilla: Firefox Health Reports could accept events from untrusted domains (MFSA 2016-48)

Apr 26, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
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/mfsa2016-48.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1035692
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2936-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2936-2
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2936-3