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

Weakness classification (CWE)

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