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CVE-2015-7195

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% 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

The URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 improperly recognizes escaped characters in hostnames within Location headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a redirect.

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/mfsa2015-129.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211871
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-129.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1

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