Bug 1265624 (CVE-2015-4508) - CVE-2015-4508 Mozilla: URL spoofing in reader mode (MFSA 2015-103)
Summary: CVE-2015-4508 Mozilla: URL spoofing in reader mode (MFSA 2015-103)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-4508
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1261782
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-23 11:30 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2023-05-12 14:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-09-24 17:43:56 UTC
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Description Prasad Pandit 2015-09-23 11:30:17 UTC 
Security researcher Juho Nurminen reported a mechanism to spoof the
URL displayed in the addressbar in reader mode by manipulating the loaded
URL. This flaw allows for the URL displayed to be different than that the web
content rendered. This allows for potential spoofing but the effects are
mitigated due to the restrictions reader mode places when rendering content.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195976

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-103/
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 12:34:18 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Juho Nurminen as the original reporter.
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 17:43:56 UTC 
This issue was fixed in Firefox version 41.
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