CVE-2015-7195
Firefox < 41.0.2 - Exposure of Sensitive Information via Location Header Hostname Parsing
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-129.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211871
Scores
EPSS
0.0056
EPSS Percentile
68.6%
Details
CWE
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox
< 41.0.2
Published
Nov 05, 2015
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026