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CVE-2015-0812 (GCVE-0-2015-0812)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-01 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:26
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 does not require an HTTPS session for lightweight theme add-on installations, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass an intended user-confirmation requirement by deploying a crafted web site and conducting a DNS spoofing attack against a mozilla.org subdomain.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2015-03-31 00:00
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