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CVE-2015-2741

MEDIUM
4.3
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1, and Thunderbird before 38.1 do not enforce key pinning upon encountering an X.509 certificate problem that generates a user dialog, which allows user-assisted man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by triggering a (1) expired certificate or (2) mismatched hostname for a domain with pinning enabled.

How to fix

Remediation Available
firefoxUbuntu
Fixed in:39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2656-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

1.31%probability of exploitation in 30 days
67thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 67% of all known CVEs.

References

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-310 (Cryptographic Issues) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVESeverityCVSSEPSSExploitedFix
CVE-2014-3566Low3.4100%-Fix
CVE-2015-4000Low3.7100%-Fix
CVE-2015-0204Medium4.399%-Fix
CVE-2016-2107Medium5.989%-Fix
CVE-2016-0800Medium5.982%-Fix
CVE-2014-8684Critical9.872%--
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