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Cent OS: CVE-2015-7188: CESA-2015:1982 (firefox)

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Cent OS: CVE-2015-7188: CESA-2015:1982 (firefox)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/05/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

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.

Solution(s)

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