CVE-2015-7191 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 on Android improperly restricts URL strings in intents, which allows attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving an intent: URL and fallback navigation, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

Published: 2015-11-05

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-7123	Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 on Android improperly restricts URL strings in intents, which allows attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving an intent: URL and fallback navigation, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00695.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-125.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208956
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10

History

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Subscriptions

Google Android

Mozilla Firefox

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2015-11-05T02:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:43:45.643Z

Reserved: 2015-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-7191

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-11-05T05:59:15.027

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

Link: CVE-2015-7191

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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