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MFSA2015-44 Firefox: Certificate verification bypass through the HTTP/2 Alt-Svc header (CVE-2015-0799)

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MFSA2015-44 Firefox: Certificate verification bypass through the HTTP/2 Alt-Svc header (CVE-2015-0799)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/03/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/06/2015
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

The HTTP Alternative Services feature in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass an intended X.509 certificate-verification step for an SSL server by specifying that server in the uri-host field of an Alt-Svc HTTP/2 response header.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-37_0_1

References

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