CVE-2016-2832 (GCVE-0-2016-2832)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-13 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to discover the list of disabled plugins via a fingerprinting attack involving Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) pseudo-classes.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1025267 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfs… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2016-06-07 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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