Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 does not require an HTTPS session for lightweight theme add-on installations, which allows man-in-the-middle…

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 does not require an HTTPS session for lightweight theme add-on installations, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass an intended user-confirmation requirement by deploying a crafted web site and conducting a DNS spoofing attack against a mozilla.org subdomain.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-17 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-17 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 1031996 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1128126 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-201512-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-32.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2550-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:0677 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 04:26 UTC.