CVE-2016-1942

7.4 highEPSS 1.8%

High (7.4). EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to spoof a trailing substring in the address bar by leveraging a user's paste of a (1) wyciwyg: URI or (2) resource: URI.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.4 high

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

EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2016-01-31
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox
opensuse:leap
opensuse:opensuse

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-09.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81948
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825

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