Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser window is closed, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2016-08-05T01:00:00
Updated: 2017-08-15T09:57:01
Reserved: 2016-03-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-2830
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-08-05T01:59:00.140
Modified: 2017-08-16T01:29:06.337
Link: CVE-2016-2830
JSON object: View
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CWE