CVE-2015-7195 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7195?

CVE-2015-7195 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 5 Nov 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

The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 improperly recognizes escaped characters in hostnames within Location headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a redirect.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7195?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7195?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-7195 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7195 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
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• 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-m98j-9vrj-cgp2, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7195.