Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2016-2830 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:4.3 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html CVE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html CVE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270 CVEIssue TrackingPermissions Required
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 CVE

see all 22 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mozilla firefox
<= 47.0.1
45.1.0
45.1.1
45.2.0
45.3.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

14 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-2830
NVD Published Date:
Aug 5, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-2830 Details - Not Deferred