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

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.901Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-5268

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

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

Link: CVE-2016-5268

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2016-5268 - Bugzilla