CVE-2016-9062 Information disclosure in Firefox

What is CVE-2016-9062?

CVE-2016-9062 is a low-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 11 Jun 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Private browsing mode leaves metadata information, such as URLs, for sites visited in "browser.db" and "browser.db-wal" files within the Firefox profile after the mode is exited. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other versions and operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9062?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9062?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-9062 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9062 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r8rg-hmw6-929h.