Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
Source: MITRE
Published: 2016-09-22
Updated: 2017-07-30
Type: CWE-200
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
Base Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 2.8
Severity: MEDIUM