CVE-2015-2741
Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—
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.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Base score: 4.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.31%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 70
- Score date: 10/7/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (3)
CWEs
- CWE-310
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1455.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-67.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032784
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-2
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1147497
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1455.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-67.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032784
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-2
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1147497
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
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