CVE-2016-2830 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.55% · 68.0th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.55%
68.0th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSfirefox0, 24.0+build1-0ubuntu1, 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSfirefox0, 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1, 42.0+build2-0ubuntu1

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