CVE-2015-0832

high

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065909

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72752

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-13.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-02-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Severity: High