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.
Published: 2015-02-25
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-0845 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2505-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Mozilla Firefox
Opensuse Opensuse
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T04:26:11.059Z

Reserved: 2015-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-0832

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-02-25T11:59:12.720

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

Link: CVE-2015-0832

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-02-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-0832 - Bugzilla

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