Bug 1291588 (CVE-2015-7215) - CVE-2015-7215 Mozilla: Cross-origin information leak through web workers error events (MFSA 2015-140)
Summary: CVE-2015-7215 Mozilla: Cross-origin information leak through web workers erro...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-7215
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: 1290704
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Reported: 2015-12-15 08:43 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-16 09:03:57 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 08:43:47 UTC
Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported a cross-origin information leak through the error events in web workers. This violates same-origin policy and the leaked information could potentially be used by a malicious party to gather authentication tokens and other data from third-party websites.

This issue affects other browsers as well and is not limited to Mozilla products.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-140.html


Acknowledgements:

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