Description
Mozilla Firefox before 35.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.4, Thunderbird before 31.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.32 do not properly interpret Set-Cookie headers within responses that have a 407 (aka Proxy Authentication Required) status code, which allows remote HTTP proxy servers to conduct session fixation attacks by providing a cookie name that corresponds to the session cookie of the origin server.
Published: 2015-01-14
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: 1.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3127-1 iceweasel security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3132-1 icedove security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-8476 Mozilla Firefox before 35.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.4, Thunderbird before 31.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.32 do not properly interpret Set-Cookie headers within responses that have a 407 (aka Proxy Authentication Required) status code, which allows remote HTTP proxy servers to conduct session fixation attacks by providing a cookie name that corresponds to the session cookie of the origin server.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2458-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2460-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0046.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0047.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00014.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00032.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00033.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00036.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00071.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0046.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0047.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62237 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62242 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62250 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62253 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62259 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62273 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62274 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62283 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62293 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62304 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62313 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62315 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62316 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62418 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62446 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62657 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/62790 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3127 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3132 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2015-04.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-04.html cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72046 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031533 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031534 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2460-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095859 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99959 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8639 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8639 cve-icon
History

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:31.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:31.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:31.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:31.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:31.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:31.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:31.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:31.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Subscriptions

Mozilla Firefox Firefox Esr Seamonkey Thunderbird
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:26:01.364Z

Reserved: 2014-11-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-8639

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-01-14T11:59:07.930

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-8639

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-01-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8639 - Bugzilla

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