PT-2015-5849 · Mozilla+2 · Firefox+2

Published 2015-05-12 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2015-2711

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 38.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading web-server Referer logs that contain private data in a URL. This occurs when a referrer policy delivered by a referrer META element is not recognized in cases of context-menu navigation and middle-click navigation.

Recommendations For versions prior to 38.0, update to version 38.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1463

ALT-PU-2015-1464

CVE-2015-2711

MGASA-2015-0342

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-2602-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Ubuntu

References · 2220

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proxy_prototype.rb · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09904 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09888 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09892 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1584 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-51 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-40 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1581 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09816 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09901 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0824 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2717 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2716 · Security Note