Bug 1220603 (CVE-2015-2711) - CVE-2015-2711 Mozilla: <meta name="referrer"> is ignored for navigations from the context menu and via a middle-click (MFSA 2015-49)
Summary: CVE-2015-2711 Mozilla: <meta name="referrer"> is ignored for navigations from...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-2711
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: 1209788
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-12 01:14 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 08:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-05-12 18:23:46 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-05-12 01:14:20 UTC 
Security researcher Alex Verstak reported that <meta name="referrer"> is ignored when a link is opened through the context menu or a middle-click by mouse. This means that, in some situations, the referrer policy is ignored when opening links in new tabs and may cause some pages to open without an HTTP Referer header being set according to the author's intended policy. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-49.html


Acknowledgements:

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

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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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