A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.2, Firefox ESR < 45.5.1, and Thunderbird < 45.5.1.

Related CVEs

CVE-2016-9079

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-cmgc-v5fc-wx68

Published

May 14, 2022 3:09 AM

Last Modified

October 22, 2025 12:31 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: November 26, 2025 6:30 AM

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