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MFSA2015-13 SeaMonkey: Appended period to hostnames can bypass HPKP and HSTS protections (CVE-2015-0832)

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MFSA2015-13 SeaMonkey: Appended period to hostnames can bypass HPKP and HSTS protections (CVE-2015-0832)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
02/25/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/23/2015
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_33_0

References

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