CVE-2016-1965
Mozilla: Addressbar spoofing though history navigation and Location protocol property (MFSA 2016-28)
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · March 8, 2016
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CWE not specified