CVE-2015-0801

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-0801  

Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving anchor navigation, a similar issue to CVE-2015-0818.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving anchor navigation, a similar issue to CVE-2015-0818.

Find out more about CVE-2015-0801 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0766 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0771 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0766 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0771 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0771 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0766 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0771 2015-04-01

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Olli Pettay and Boris Zbarsky as the original reporters.

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