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Security Features Affecting firefox package, versions <0:38.4.0-1.0.1.el7_1

Severity

 Recommended
critical

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.63% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE7-FIREFOX-2501580
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 5 Nov 2015
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Introduced: 5 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7188 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-254 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 firefox to version 0:38.4.0-1.0.1.el7_1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2015-1982.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy for an IP address origin, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by appending whitespace characters to an IP address string.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

4.3 medium