CVE-2016-2830

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser…

published August 5, 2016

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
73.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser window is closed, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01459 · 73.2th percentile
Published
2016-08-05T01:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 AUG 01:00Z
    Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser…
    cvelistv5