CVE-2016-2830: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 47.0.1; version 45.1.0 only; version 45.1.1 only; version 45.2.0 only; version 45.3.0 only

Published 2016-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.