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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:32:21.242Z

Reserved: 2016-03-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-2830

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-08-05T01:59:00.140

Modified: 2017-08-16T01:29:06.337

Link: CVE-2016-2830

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2830 - Bugzilla