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CVE-2016-2829

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2829 describes a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 47.0, affecting products from Canonical, Mozilla, and OpenSUSE. This flaw allows remote attackers to spoof permission notifications, such as for microphone or geolocation access, by rapidly triggering permission requests from a crafted website. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), it requires user interaction and has a high impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

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:*:*:*
<= 46.0.1CPE 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: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
1.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0133 is in the 81st 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

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-2016-2829Moderate

Mozilla: Incorrect icon displayed on permissions notifications (MFSA 2016-57)

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/mfsa2016-57.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1036057
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2993-1