Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2015-7188
Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy for an IP address origin, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by appending whitespace characters to an IP address string.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.031 (87.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3410 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/77411 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00021.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-122.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00037.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1 (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2015-7188?
- CVE-2015-7188 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under CWE-254. Published 2015-11-05.
- Is CVE-2015-7188 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.