CVE-2015-7211

Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 mishandles the # (number sign) character in a data: URI, which allows remote attackers to spoof web sites via unspecified vectors.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2015-12-16

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Leap (Opensuse)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-141.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79280
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221444
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10