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CVE-2015-7211
Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 mishandles the # (number sign) character in a data: URI, which allows remote attackers to spoof web sites via…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.5%
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Description
Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 mishandles the # (number sign) character in a data: URI, which allows remote attackers to spoof web sites via unspecified vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (11)
- GLSA-201512-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:2353 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221444 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0308 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-7ab3d3afcf (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-2833-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-141.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 79280 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0307 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-51b1105902 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 1034426 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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)
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