CVE-2015-7195

Impact

The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 improperly recognizes escaped characters in hostnames within Location headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a redirect.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-129.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211871
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-129.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211871
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10