CVE-2016-2829: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to spoof permission notifications via a crafted web site that rapidly triggers permission requests, as demonstrated by the microphone permission or the geolocation permission.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 46.0.1
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only

Published 2016-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.