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Mozilla Firefox XMLHttpRequest Spoofing Vulnerability

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Mozilla Firefox XMLHttpRequest Spoofing Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/23/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/28/2005
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox allow a website operator to add malformed HTTP headers to an XMLHttpRequest. As a result, the operator can attempt to exploit server flaws from the user's machine or smuggle HTTP requests.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_0_7
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

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