CVE-2016-5260

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-200 Information Leak / Disclosure

Publication date:

05/08/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 mishandles changes from &#39;INPUT type="password"&#39; to &#39;INPUT type="text"&#39; within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

6.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None