CVE-2016-1939 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2016-1939

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical...

Vulnerability Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7208.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

leap, opensuse, firefox
Vulnerable Versions:
42.1, 13.1, 13.2, 0

Timeline

Official Publish: January 31st, 2016
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.