CVE-2015-2711

medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 does not recognize a referrer policy delivered by a referrer META element in cases of context-menu navigation and middle-click navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading web-server Referer logs that contain private data in a URL, as demonstrated by a private path component.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-49.html

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1113431

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2015-05-14

Updated: 2018-10-30

Type: CWE-200

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM