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CVE-2016-5265

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.2%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks or read arbitrary files, by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 69% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-79, CWE-200
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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