CVE-2015-7188

high
Published 2015-11-05 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy for an IP address origin, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by appending whitespace characters to an IP address string.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"41.0.2"}
mozilla mozillafirefox38.0
mozilla mozillafirefox38.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox38.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox38.1.0
mozilla mozillafirefox38.1.1
mozilla mozillafirefox38.2.0
mozilla mozillafirefox38.2.1
mozilla mozillafirefox38.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-254

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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