CVE-2015-7208

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 stores cookies containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Mozilla Firefox: through 42.0
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-137.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-04.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79280
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825

Get alerted when CVE-2015-7208 or the next vulnerability affects your stack