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Medium
CVE-2015-7197
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 improperly control the ability of a web worker to create a WebSocket object, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended mixed-content restrictions via crafted JavaScript code.
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
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204269
- 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/mfsa2015-132.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00037.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2519.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1
- 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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Affected Vendor
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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.