CVE-2015-5961

low
Published 2015-08-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.3
VIR risk
3.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123433

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.