CVE-2016-5291

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

11/06/2018

Last modified:

25/11/2025

Description

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::		45.5.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::		50.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::		45.5.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*

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CVE-2016-5291

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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