PT-2015-2619 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Frans Rosén

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Published

2015-11-03

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Updated

2024-12-12

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CVE-2015-7195

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 42.0
Description The issue is related to the URL parsing implementation, which improperly recognizes escaped characters in hostnames within Location headers. This allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a redirect. The exploitation of this issue can enable a remote attacker to access protected information by redirecting the user to another site.
Recommendations For versions prior to 42.0, update to version 42.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1974
ALT-PU-2016-1454
BDU:2015-11984
CVE-2015-7195
MGASA-2015-0447
OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1942-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
USN-2785-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Firefox
Suse
Ubuntu