Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2015-0812

Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 does not require an HTTPS session for lightweight theme add-on installations, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass an intended user-confirmation requirement by deploying a crafted web site and conducting a DNS spoofing attack against a mozilla.org subdomain.

EPSS: 0.013 (66.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-0812?
CVE-2015-0812 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under CWE-17. Published 2015-04-01.
Is CVE-2015-0812 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.