CVE-2015-2741

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1, and Thunderbird before 38.1 do not enforce key pinning upon encountering an X.509 certificate problem that generates a user dialog, which allows user-assisted man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by triggering a (1) expired certificate or (2) mismatched hostname for a domain with pinning enabled.

Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1, and Thunderbird before 38.1 do not enforce key pinning upon encountering an X.509 certificate problem that generates a user dialog, which allows user-assisted man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by triggering a (1) expired certificate or (2) mismatched hostname for a domain with pinning enabled.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-07-06 02:01:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-28 02:59:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

Oracle Solaris 11.3

11.3

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.0

31.0

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.1

31.1

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.1.0

31.1.0

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.1.1

31.1.1

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.2

31.2

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.3

31.3

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.3.0

31.3.0

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.4

31.4

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.5

31.5

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.5.1

31.5.1

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.5.2

31.5.2

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 31.5.3

31.5.3

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0

38.0

References

openSUSE-SU-2015:1229

RHSA-2015:1207

RHSA-2015:1455

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-67.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

Third Party Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

Third Party Advisory

75541

1032783

1032784

USN-2656-1

USN-2656-2

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1147497

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

GLSA-201512-10

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