Coverage › CVE-2016-9079
CVE-2016-9079 Unmapped
Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Mozilla — Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird
- Description (CISA)
- Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird contain a use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation, targeting Firefox and Tor browser users on Windows.
- Added to KEV
- 2023-06-22
- Due date
- 2023-07-13
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-416
- CISA notes
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92/#CVE-2016-9079
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9079 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2016-9079. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-416) — here is why — and does not guess.
This page will change state automatically if a mapping is published. What is shown above is everything CISA publishes about the entry.