Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2015-4498
The add-on installation feature in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2.1 allows remote attackers to bypass an intended user-confirmation requirement by constructing a crafted data: URL and triggering navigation to an arbitrary http: or https: URL at a certain early point in the installation process.
EPSS: 0.027 (84.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)