VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-2830

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM

EPSS probability1.46%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2016-08-05

Last modified2026-06-17

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser window is closed, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses.