CVE-2016-1947 (GCVE-0-2016-1947)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-01-31 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:10
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Mozilla Firefox 43.x mishandles attempts to connect to the Application Reputation service, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trigger an unintended download by leveraging the absence of reputation data.
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