CVE-2015-2711 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2711?

CVE-2015-2711 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 14 May 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2711?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2711?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-2711 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2711 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wffm-6f65-w6fm, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2711.