CVE-2016-9070 describes a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 50, where a maliciously crafted page loaded via a bookmark into the sidebar could reference a privileged chrome window. This allowed limited JavaScript operations to bypass cross-origin protections. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and low privileges (PR:L), but if successful, could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 50CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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