CVE-2015-4490
published 2015-08-16CVE-2015-4490: The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 does not implement the Content Security Policy Level 2…
PriorityP420medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNIPAN
EPSS
2.95%
85.5th percentile
The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 does not implement the Content Security Policy Level 2 exceptions for the blob, data, and filesystem URL schemes during wildcard source-expression matching, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging unexpected policy-enforcement behavior.
Affected
9 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | <= 39.0.3 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 | 40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 |
| opensuse | opensuse | — | — |
| opensuse | opensuse | — | — |
| oracle | solaris | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
osv10.0CRITICAL
vendor_ubuntu10.0CRITICAL
vendor_redhat4.3MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
Firefox regression
vendor_ubuntu·2015-08-20·CVSS 10.0
[CRITICAL] Firefox regression
Title: Firefox regression
Summary: USN-2702-1 introduced a regression in Firefox.
USN-2702-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. After upgrading, some users
in the US reported that their default search engine switched to Yahoo.
This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley,
Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in
Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,
an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-4473, CVE-2015-4474)
Aki Helin discovered an out-of-bounds read when play
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-08-11·CVSS 10.0
CVE-2015-4473 [CRITICAL] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley,
Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in
Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,
an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-4473, CVE-2015-4474)
Aki Helin discovered an out-of-bounds read when playing malformed MP3
content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
obtain sensitive informatio
Ubuntu
Ubufox update
vendor_ubuntu·2015-08-11·CVSS 10.0
[CRITICAL] Ubufox update
Title: Ubufox update
Summary: This update provides compatible packages for Firefox 40.
USN-2702-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubufox.
Original advisory details:
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley,
Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in
Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,
an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-4473, CVE-2015-4474)
Aki Helin discovered an out-of-bounds read when playing malformed MP3
content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially craft
Red Hat
Mozilla: Mozilla Content Security Policy allows for asterisk wildcards in violation of CSP specification (MFSA 2015-91)
vendor_redhat·2015-08-11·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2015-4490 [MEDIUM] Mozilla: Mozilla Content Security Policy allows for asterisk wildcards in violation of CSP specification (MFSA 2015-91)
Mozilla: Mozilla Content Security Policy allows for asterisk wildcards in violation of CSP specification (MFSA 2015-91)
The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 does not implement the Content Security Policy Level 2 exceptions for the blob, data, and filesystem URL schemes during wildcard source-expression matching, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging unexpected policy-enforcement behavior.
Statement: This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: firefox
GHSA
GHSA-346h-r83r-9vqj: The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2015-4490 [MEDIUM] CWE-79 GHSA-346h-r83r-9vqj: The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils
The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 does not implement the Content Security Policy Level 2 exceptions for the blob, data, and filesystem URL schemes during wildcard source-expression matching, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging unexpected policy-enforcement behavior.
OSV
firefox regression
osv·2015-08-20·CVSS 10.0
[CRITICAL] firefox regression
firefox regression
USN-2702-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. After upgrading, some users
in the US reported that their default search engine switched to Yahoo.
This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley,
Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in
Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,
an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-4473, CVE-2015-4474)
Aki Helin discovered an out-of-bounds read when playing malformed MP3
content in some circumstances. If a user were
OSV
CVE-2015-4490: The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils
osv·2015-08-11·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2015-4490 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-4490: The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils
The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 does not implement the Content Security Policy Level 2 exceptions for the blob, data, and filesystem URL schemes during wildcard source-expression matching, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging unexpected policy-enforcement behavior.
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2015-08-11·CVSS 10.0
CVE-2015-4473 [CRITICAL] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley,
Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in
Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,
an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-4473, CVE-2015-4474)
Aki Helin discovered an out-of-bounds read when playing malformed MP3
content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user in
OSV
ubufox update
osv·2015-08-11·CVSS 10.0
[CRITICAL] ubufox update
ubufox update
USN-2702-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubufox.
Original advisory details:
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley,
Chris Coulson, and Eric Rahm discovered multiple memory safety issues in
Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,
an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-4473, CVE-2015-4474)
Aki Helin discovered an out-of-bounds read when playing malformed MP3
content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
obtain sensitive
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-91.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1086999https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-91.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1086999https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
2015-08-16
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