CVE-2015-4520

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-09-22
CWE:
CWE-284
Bugzilla:
1265781: CVE-2015-4520 Mozilla: Errors in the handling of CORS preflight request headers (MFSA 2015-111)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 allow remote attackers to bypass CORS preflight protection mechanisms by leveraging (1) duplicate cache-key generation or (2) retrieval of a value from an incorrect HTTP Access-Control-* response header.

Find out more about CVE-2015-4520 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1852 2015-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1852 2015-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1852 2015-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1852 2015-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1834 2015-09-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1834 2015-09-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1834 2015-09-22

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Ehsan Akhgari as the original reporter.

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