A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:49.045Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-5291

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:00.437

Modified: 2018-07-30T12:40:18.507

Link: CVE-2016-5291

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5291 - Bugzilla