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Unscored USN-2768-1 1 CVE

firefox vulnerability

Published Oct 16, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Abdulrahman Alqabandi and Ben Kelly discovered that the fetch() API did
not correctly implement the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
specification. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive
information from other origins. (CVE-2015-7184)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS firefox 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —

    The fetch API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0.2 does not restrict access to the HTTP response body in cer…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7184