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CVE-2016-9079

A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild...

Basic Information

CVE State
PUBLISHED
Reserved Date
October 27, 2016
Published Date
June 11, 2018
Last Updated
February 07, 2025
Vendor
Mozilla
Product
Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird
Description
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.
Tags
windows cisa metasploit_scanner

CVSS Scores

CVSS v3.1

7.5 - HIGH

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

SSVC Information

Exploitation
active
Automatable
Yes
Technical Impact
partial

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild
Yes (2023-06-22 00:00:00 UTC) Source
Proof of Concept Available
Yes (added 2021-10-08 21:44:13 UTC) Source

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2843.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-35 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037370 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42327/ http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2850.html https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94591 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41151/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321066

Known Exploited Vulnerability Information

Source Added Date
CISA 2023-06-22 00:00:00 UTC

Scanner Integrations

Scanner URL Date Detected
Metasploit https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/firefox_smil_uaf.rb 2025-04-29 11:01:30 UTC

Potential Proof of Concepts

Warning: These PoCs have not been tested and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

firefox_smil_uaf

Type: metasploit • Created: Unknown

Metasploit module for CVE-2016-9079

Tau-hub/Firefox-CVE-2016-9079

Type: github • Created: 2021-10-08 21:44:13 UTC • Stars: 1

dangokyo/CVE-2016-9079

Type: github • Created: 2018-07-29 12:55:27 UTC • Stars: 7

A demo exploit of CVE-2016-9079 on Ubuntu x64

LakshmiDesai/CVE-2016-9079

Type: github • Created: 2017-02-08 07:41:37 UTC • Stars: 1

CVE-2016-9079 exploit code as it appeared on https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-November/042639.html

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Proof of Concept Exploit Available

  • Added to KEVIntel

  • Detected by Metasploit