medium5.0
CVE-2015-0832
Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing .
Impact
Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Opensuse | Opensuse | Versions 13.1, 13.2 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 |
| Mozilla | Firefox | through 35.0.1 Versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-13.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72752
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065909
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-13.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72752
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065909
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01