CVE-2015-7193

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 improperly follow the CORS cross-origin request algorithm for the POST method in situations involving an unspecified Content-Type header manipulation, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy by leveraging the lack of a preflight-request step.

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 improperly follow the CORS cross-origin request algorithm for the POST method in situations involving an unspecified Content-Type header manipulation, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy by leveraging the lack of a preflight-request step.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-11-05 05:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-07 18:23:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0

38.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0.1

38.0.1

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0.5

38.0.5

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.1.0

38.1.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.1.1

38.1.1

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.2.0

38.2.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.2.1

38.2.1

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 38.3.0

38.3.0

Mozilla Firefox

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