CVE-2015-7188

Description

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.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.56%
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Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
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References

Link Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069 vdb entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3410 vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77411 vdb entry
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00021.html vendor advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-122.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00037.html vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1 vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199430
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00013.html vendor advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1982.html vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2819-1 vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3393 vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00049.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00020.html vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2015-7188?
CVE-2015-7188 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2015-7188?
To fix CVE-2015-7188, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2015-7188 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2015-7188 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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