CVE-2015-0832
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-254
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-13.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72752
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065909
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01