CVE-2016-9079

critical-risk
Published 2018-06-11

A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.2, Firefox ESR < 45.5.1, and Thunderbird < 45.5.1.

Do I need to act?

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84.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 15% of all CVEs
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CISA KEV: actively exploited in the wild
On the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — federal agencies must patch
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2 public exploits available
42327, 41151
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Mozilla Torproject

References (23)

Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2843.html
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2850.html
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94591
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037370
Exploit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321066
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-35
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41151/
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42327/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92/
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2843.html
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2850.html
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94591
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037370
Exploit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321066
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-35
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41151/
and 3 more references
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critical-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 34/34 · Critical
Exposure 20/34 · Moderate