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CVE-2016-1962

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 6.1% (pctl 93)

In your normal cycle

Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::DataChannelConnection::Close function in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging mishandling of WebRTC data-channel connections.

Scoring

CVSS9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0)
VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS6.08% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs
On CISA KEVno
Public exploitnone known
Published2016-03-13
Last modified2026-06-17

Affected (3)

VendorProduct
mozillafirefox
opensuseopensuse
oraclelinux

References

→ the Explorer  ·  watch your stack  ·  NVD