Bug 1291581 (CVE-2015-7207) - CVE-2015-7207 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using perfomance.getEntries and history navigation (MFSA 2015-136)
Summary: CVE-2015-7207 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using perfomance.getEntri...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-7207
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1290704
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Reported: 2015-12-15 08:34 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-16 09:03:31 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 08:34:26 UTC
Security researcher cgvwzq reported that it is possible to read cross-origin URLs following a redirect if perfomance.getEntries() is used along with an iframe to host a page. Navigating back in history through script, content is pulled from the browser cache for the redirected location instead of going to the original location. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft.

This issue affects other browsers as well and is not limited to Mozilla products.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-136.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.


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