CVE-2015-0812 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 does not require an HTTPS session for lightweight theme add-on installations, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass an intended user-confirmation requirement by deploying a crafted web site and conducting a DNS spoofing attack against a mozilla.org subdomain.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Canonical	Ubuntu Linux
Mozilla	Firefox
Opensuse	Opensuse

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:36.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:::::::*

Configuration 3 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:::::::*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-32.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031996
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2550-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1128126
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0812
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0812

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2015-04-01T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T04:26:10.159Z

Reserved: 2015-01-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-0812

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-04-01T10:59:11.490

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-0812

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-0812 - Bugzilla

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