Description
Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 does not recognize a referrer policy delivered by a referrer META element in cases of context-menu navigation and middle-click navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading web-server Referer logs that contain private data in a URL, as demonstrated by a private path component.
Published: 2015-05-14
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-2801 Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 does not recognize a referrer policy delivered by a referrer META element in cases of context-menu navigation and middle-click navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading web-server Referer logs that contain private data in a URL, as demonstrated by a private path component.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2602-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
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Mozilla Firefox
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:24:38.461Z

Reserved: 2015-03-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-2711

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-05-14T10:59:04.430

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

Link: CVE-2015-2711

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-2711 - Bugzilla

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