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CVE-2015-4483 Detail

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a mixed-content protection mechanism via a feed: URL in a POST request.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  08/15/2015

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-86.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76510
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1148732 Issue Tracking
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)

Change History

11 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-4483
NVD Published Date:
08/15/2015
NVD Last Modified:
10/30/2018