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Vulnerability details: VCID-wffz-7y83-qkbm
Vulnerability ID VCID-wffz-7y83-qkbm
Aliases CVE-2016-9080
Summary Mozilla developers and community members Kan-Ru Chen, Christian Holler, and Tyson Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 50.0.2. 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
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
epss 0.01847 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
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-2016-9080
cvssv3 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9080
archlinux Critical https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-106
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-9080
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1289701%2C1314401%2C1315848
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94883
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461
ASA-201612-15 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201612-15
AVG-106 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-106
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-9080 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9080
mfsa2016-94 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94
USN-3155-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3155-1/
No exploits are available.
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-2016-9080
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-2016-9080
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 0.82917
EPSS Score 0.01847
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:16:32.265063+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2016/mfsa2016-94.yml 38.0.0