CVE-2016-1965

Publication date 8 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Fixed 45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
thunderbird	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2917-1
Firefox vulnerabilities
9 March 2016