cve/2016/CVE-2016-9078.md

CVE-2016-9078

Description

Redirection from an HTTP connection to a "data:" URL assigns the referring site's origin to the "data:" URL in some circumstances. This can result in same-origin violations against a domain if it loads resources from malicious sites. Cross-origin setting of cookies has been demonstrated without the ability to read them. Note: This issue only affects Firefox 49 and 50. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.1.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1317641

Github

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