CVE-2016-5298: Mozilla Firefox

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

A mechanism where disruption of the loading of a new web page can cause the previous page's favicon and SSL indicator to not be reset when the new page is loaded. Note: this issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop Firefox is unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 50.0 (fixed in 50.0)

Published 2018-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.