CVE-2015-7195

The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 improperly recognizes escaped characters in hostnames within Location headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a redirect.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2015-11-05

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-129.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211871
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10