Bug 1291589 (CVE-2015-7211) - CVE-2015-7211 Mozilla: Hash in data: URI is incorrectly parsed (MFSA 2015-141)
Summary: CVE-2015-7211 Mozilla: Hash in data: URI is incorrectly parsed (MFSA 2015-141)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-7211
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1290704
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-15 08:47 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-16 09:04:07 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 08:47:45 UTC
Security researcher Abdulrahman Alqabandi reported that when a data: URI is parsed, the hash ('#') symbol is incorrectly handled, allowing for spoofing attacks. This issue could result in the wrong URI being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different site than the one loaded. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-141.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abdulrahman Alqabandi 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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