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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-05-14

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium