Bug 1195639 (CVE-2015-0821) - CVE-2015-0821 Mozilla: Local files or privileged URLs in pages can be opened into new tabs (MFSA 2015-25)
Summary: CVE-2015-0821 Mozilla: Local files or privileged URLs in pages can be opened ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-0821
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: 1193790
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-24 08:38 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 07:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-02-24 19:47:40 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-02-24 08:38:20 UTC
Security researcher Armin Razmdjou reported that opening hyperlinks on a page with the mouse and specific keyboard key combinations could allow a Chrome privileged URL to be opened without context restrictions being preserved. This could also allow for the opening of local files or resources from a known location to be opened with local privileges, bypassing security protections. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-25


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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