1277351 – (CVE-2015-7197) CVE-2015-7197 Mozilla: Mixed content WebSocket policy bypass through workers (MFSA 2015-132)

Bug 1277351 (CVE-2015-7197) - CVE-2015-7197 Mozilla: Mixed content WebSocket policy bypass through workers (MFSA 2015-132)

Summary: CVE-2015-7197 Mozilla: Mixed content WebSocket policy bypass through workers ...

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2015-7197
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	1275590
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2015-11-03 06:05 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2023-05-12 11:00 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-11-26 15:11:00 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:1982	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2015-11-04 17:10:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:2519	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2015-11-26 18:41:00 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-11-03 06:05:59 UTC

Mozilla developer Ehsan Akhgari reported a mechanism through which a web worker could be used to bypass secure requirements for WebSockets when workers are used to create WebSockets. This allows for the bypassing of mixed content WebSocket policy. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-132.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Ehsan Akhgari as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-04 12:12:24 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:1982 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1982.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-26 13:41:55 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2519 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2519.html

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