CVE-2015-4518
published 2015-11-05CVE-2015-4518: The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 has an improper whitelist, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the Content…
PriorityP419medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNIPAN
EPSS
2.28%
81.4th percentile
The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 has an improper whitelist, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving SVG animations and the about:reader URL.
Affected
2 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | <= 41.0.2 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat4.3MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-11-04·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-4513 [HIGH] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Christian Holler, David Major, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky,
Randell Jesup, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Jeff Walden, Gary Kwong,
Andrew McCreight, Georg Fritzsche, and Carsten Book 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-2015-4513,
CVE-2015-4514)
Tim Brown discovered that Firefox discloses the hostname during NTLM
authentication in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to
opening
Red Hat
Mozilla: CSP bypass due to permissive Reader mode whitelist (MFSA 2015-118)
vendor_redhat·2015-11-04·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2015-4518 [MEDIUM] Mozilla: CSP bypass due to permissive Reader mode whitelist (MFSA 2015-118)
Mozilla: CSP bypass due to permissive Reader mode whitelist (MFSA 2015-118)
The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 has an improper whitelist, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving SVG animations and the about:reader URL.
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 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat En
GHSA
GHSA-23c8-qcpq-5v6v: The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2015-4518 [MEDIUM] CWE-79 GHSA-23c8-qcpq-5v6v: The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42
The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 has an improper whitelist, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving SVG animations and the about:reader URL.
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2015-11-04·CVSS 7.5
[HIGH] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Christian Holler, David Major, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky,
Randell Jesup, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Jeff Walden, Gary Kwong,
Andrew McCreight, Georg Fritzsche, and Carsten Book 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-2015-4513,
CVE-2015-4514)
Tim Brown discovered that Firefox discloses the hostname during NTLM
authentication in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website with NTLM v1 enabled, an attacker
could exploit this to obtain sensitive information
OSV
CVE-2015-4518: The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42
osv·2015-11-04·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2015-4518 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-4518: The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42
The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 has an improper whitelist, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving SVG animations and the about:reader URL.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-118.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1136692https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182778https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-118.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1136692https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182778https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
2015-11-05
Published