CVE-2016-5265 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5265?

CVE-2016-5265 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 5 Aug 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-79, CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5265?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Oracle Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5265?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2016-5265 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5265, GHSA-vf6c-g2gw-jg5r, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5265.