Bug 1207071 (CVE-2015-0812) - CVE-2015-0812 Mozilla: Add-on lightweight theme installation approval bypassed through MITM attack (MFSA 2015-32)
Summary: CVE-2015-0812 Mozilla: Add-on lightweight theme installation approval bypasse...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-0812
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1205778
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Reported: 2015-03-30 08:01 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 07:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-04-01 10:01:54 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-03-30 08:01:17 UTC
Security researcher Armin Razmdjou discovered that a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker spoofing a Mozilla sub-domain could bypass user approval messages to install a Firefox lightweight theme. This was possible because add-on installations of the lightweight themes do not require the use of HTTP over SSL. Firefox extensions were not directly affected and still required user approval for installation.



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-32.html


Acknowledgements:

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