Mozilla Firefox 42 Same-Origin Policy perfomance.getEntries/history information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 42. It has been rated as critical. This affects the function perfomance.getEntries/history of the component Same-Origin Policy Handler. This manipulation causes information disclosure. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2015-7207. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox 42 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function perfomance.getEntries/history of the component Same-Origin Policy Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 12/15/2015 by cgvwzq as MFSA2015-136 as confirmed security advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-7207 since 09/16/2015. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK. The advisory points out:

Security researcher cgvwzq reported that it is possible to read cross-origin URLs following a redirect if perfomance.getEntries() is used along with an iframe to host a page. Navigating back in history through script, content is pulled from the browser cache for the redirected location instead of going to the original location. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 87385 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (2c2d1c39-1396-459a-91f5-ca03ee7c64c6)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 168677 (OpenSuSE Security Update for Security MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2016:0876-1)).

Upgrading to version 43 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (87385), SecurityFocus (BID 79280†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-55290†). The entries VDB-77073, VDB-79805, VDB-79806 and VDB-79808 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 87385
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (2c2d1c39-1396-459a-91f5-ca03ee7c64c6)
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OpenVAS ID: 803852
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - Dec15 (Windows)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 43

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA2015-136
Researcher: cgvwzq
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-7207 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-7207
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-79807
SecurityFocus: 79280
SecurityTracker: 1034426
Vulnerability Center: 55290 - Mozilla Firefox <43 Remote History Information Disclosure dye to Same-Origin Bypass Using perfomance.getEntries(), Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 12/16/2015 11:18
Updated: 07/01/2022 08:37
Changes: 12/16/2015 11:18 (69), 05/15/2018 09:07 (8), 07/01/2022 08:37 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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