CVE-2016-2820 (GCVE-0-2016-2820)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-30 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:32
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Firefox Health Reports (aka FHR or about:healthreport) feature in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 does not properly restrict the origin of events, which makes it easier for remote attackers to modify sharing preferences by leveraging access to the remote-report IFRAME element.
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