CVE-2016-5266

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

05/08/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 does not properly restrict drag-and-drop (aka dataTransfer) actions for file: URIs, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to access local files via a crafted web site.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 8.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

8.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 5.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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