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CVE-2015-5961

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The COPPA error page in the Accounts setup dialog in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.2 embeds content from an external web server URL into the System process, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by spoofing that server.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox Os: through 2.1.0

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-75.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76255
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123433
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-75.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76255
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123433

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