Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2015-2711
Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 does not recognize a referrer policy delivered by a referrer META element in cases of context-menu navigation and middle-click navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading web-server Referer logs that contain private data in a URL, as demonstrated by a private path component.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
EPSS: 0.019 (77.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opensuse — versions 13.1, 13.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)