CVE-2016-5291: Mozilla Thunderbird

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk.

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0043 · 37th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: mozilla) at 11 Jun 2018, 21:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Thunderbird	affected unspecified to before 45.5 custom
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	affected unspecified to before 45.5 custom
Mozilla	Firefox	affected unspecified to before 50 custom

Identifiers

CVE-2016-5291

CNA

mozilla

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0043, the 37th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 Jun 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730 vendor-advisorydebian
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292159 confirm
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 vdb-entrysectrack
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 vendor-advisorygentoo
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336 vdb-entrybid
www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/ confirm
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html vendor-advisoryredhat
www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ confirm
www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/ confirm

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.