Mozilla Firefox CVE-2016-2825 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Security researcher Armin Razmdjou reported that the location.host property can be set to an arbitrary string after creating an invalid data: URI. This allows for a bypass of some same-origin policy protections. This issue is mitigated by the data: URI in use and any same-origin checks for http: or https: are still enforced correctly. As a result cookie stealing and other common same-origin bypass attacks are not possible.

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Firefox

CVE References

CVE-2016-2825