CVE-2015-7186

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 on Android allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and trigger (1) a download or (2) cached profile-data reading via a file: URL in a saved HTML document.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 41.0.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-120.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193027
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-120.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193027

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