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CVE-2016-1943

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.7)—

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 on Android allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via the scrollTo method.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (4)

Google — AndroidMozilla — FirefoxOpensuse — LeapOpensuse — Opensuse

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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