CVE-2016-5292 Denial of service in Firefox

What is CVE-2016-5292?

CVE-2016-5292 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

During URL parsing, a maliciously crafted URL can cause a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5292?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5292?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-5292 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5292 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

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-crcr-jcjm-54w8, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5292.