Bug 1220609 (CVE-2015-2718) - CVE-2015-2718 Mozilla: Untrusted site hosting trusted page can intercept webchannel responses (MFSA 2015-56)
Summary: CVE-2015-2718 Mozilla: Untrusted site hosting trusted page can intercept webc...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-2718
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
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Reported: 2015-05-12 01:21 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 08:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-05-12 18:30:00 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-05-12 01:21:03 UTC
Mozilla developer Mark Hammond reported a flaw in how WebChannel.jsm handles message traffic. He found that when a trusted page is hosted within an <iframe> on an untrusted third-party untrusted framing page, the untrusted page could intercept webchannel responses meant for the trusted page, bypassing origin restrictions. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-56.html


Acknowledgements:

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