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Vulnerability details: VCID-6ts4-3n4j-8fex
Vulnerability ID VCID-6ts4-3n4j-8fex
Aliases CVE-2016-5290
Summary Mozilla developers and community members Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Ehsan Akhgari, Jon Coppeard, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, Philipp, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 45.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
cvssv3 9.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-5290.json
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
epss 0.01973 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
cvssv2 6.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5290
cvssv3 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5290
archlinux Critical https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-72
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93
Reference id Reference type URL
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-5290.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5290
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1309720%2C1297062%2C1303710%2C1018486%2C1292590%2C1301343%2C1301496%2C1308048%2C1308346%2C1299519%2C1286911%2C1298169
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5290
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5291
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5296
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5297
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9064
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9066
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9074
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9079
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
1395066 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395066
ASA-201611-16 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-16
AVG-72 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-72
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-5290 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5290
mfsa2016-89 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89
mfsa2016-90 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90
mfsa2016-93 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93
RHSA-2016:2780 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2780
RHSA-2016:2825 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2825
USN-3124-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3124-1/
USN-3141-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3141-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-5290.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5290
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5290
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.82781
EPSS Score 0.01973
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:09:13.090595+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2016/mfsa2016-93.yml 37.0.0