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CVE-2016-2825

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2825 describes a Same-Origin Policy bypass vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before version 47.0, also affecting Canonical and OpenSUSE distributions. Attackers could exploit this flaw by using an invalid data: URL to modify the location.host property, potentially leading to unauthorized data manipulation. Rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction and has a high impact on integrity, though confidentiality and availability are not affected. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
15.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:N/I:H/A:N

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 26,208 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-2016-2825Moderate

Mozilla: Partial same-origin-policy through setting location.host through data: URI (MFSA 2016-54)

Jun 7, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
mozilla.org / security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-54.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1036057
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2993-1