Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
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| Hyperlink | Resource Type |
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Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| text | N/A | n/a |
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| CAPEC ID | Description |
|---|
| Event | Date |
|---|
| Hyperlink | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065909 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-13.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72752 | vdb-entry x_refsource_BID |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html | vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html | vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU |
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| CAPEC ID | Description |
|---|
| Event | Date |
|---|
| Hyperlink | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065909 | x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-13.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72752 | vdb-entry x_refsource_BID x_transferred |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_GENTOO x_transferred |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html | vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE x_transferred |
| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html | vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE x_transferred |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU x_transferred |
Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.
| Date Added | Due Date | Vulnerability Name | Required Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A |
| Type | Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | 2.0 | 5.0 | MEDIUM | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |