CVE-2016-1939

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    CVE-2016-1939

    Published: 31 Jan 2016Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233784

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High