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CVE-2015-7186

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 on Android allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and trigger (1) a download or (2) cached profile-data reading via a file: URL in a saved HTML document.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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 (1)

Mozilla — Firefox

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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