CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-4518
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Reader View implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 has an improper whitelist, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving SVG animations and the about:reader URL.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (<= 41.0.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-118.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1136692 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182778 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-118.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1136692 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182778 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 security.gentoo.org