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.
EPSS: 0.031 (86.4th 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)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
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.