Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 does not properly set the LINKABLE and URI_SAFE_FOR_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT flags of about: URLs that are used for error pages, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct spoofing attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by misleading text after an about:neterror?d= substring.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2016-08-05T01:00:00

Updated: 2017-08-15T09:57:01

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-5268

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-08-05T01:59:24.207

Modified: 2017-08-16T01:29:09.710


Link: CVE-2016-5268

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