CVE-2015-7195
published 2015-11-05CVE-2015-7195: The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 improperly recognizes escaped characters in hostnames within Location headers, which allows…
PriorityP420medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCPINAN
EPSS
2.18%
80.6th percentile
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.
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
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat5.0MEDIUM
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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: Certain escaped characters in host of Location-header are being treated as non-escaped (MFSA 2015-129)
vendor_redhat·2015-11-04·CVSS 5.0
CVE-2015-7195 [MEDIUM] Mozilla: Certain escaped characters in host of Location-header are being treated as non-escaped (MFSA 2015-129)
Mozilla: Certain escaped characters in host of Location-header are being treated as non-escaped (MFSA 2015-129)
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.
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 Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
GHSA
GHSA-m98j-9vrj-cgp2: The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2015-7195 [MEDIUM] CWE-200 GHSA-m98j-9vrj-cgp2: The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42
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.
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-2015-7195: The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42
osv·2015-11-04·CVSS 5.0
CVE-2015-7195 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-7195: The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42
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.
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/mfsa2015-129.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=1211871https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-129.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=1211871https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
2015-11-05
Published