Improper Scheme Restriction in Favicon Requests in Mozilla Firefox

Improper Scheme Restriction in Favicon Requests in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2016-5282 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.

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