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High
CVE-2015-7188
Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4...
Vulnerability Description
Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy for an IP address origin, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by appending whitespace characters to an IP address string.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3410
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77411
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00021.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-122.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00037.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199430
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00013.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1982.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2819-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3393
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00049.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00020.html
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0, 38.1.1, 38.2.0, 38.2.1, 38.3.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
November 5th, 2015
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.