Incomplete Fix for Vertical Tab Cookie Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2016-1939 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 stores cookies with names containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7208.

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