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.

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

SSVC Information

Exploitation: active
Automatable: Yes
Technical Impact: partial

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild: Yes (added 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