CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-0822

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Feb 25, 2015 | Modified: Oct 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The Form Autocompletion feature in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5, and Thunderbird before 31.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via crafted JavaScript code.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 35.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.1 (including) 0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.2 (including) 0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.3 (including) 0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.4 (including) 0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.5 (including) 0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.6 (including) 0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.6.1 (including) 0.6.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.7 (including) 0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.7.1 (including) 0.7.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.8 (including) 0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9 (including) 0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9-rc (including) 0.9-rc (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.1 (including) 0.9.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.2 (including) 0.9.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.3 (including) 0.9.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.10 (including) 0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.10.1 (including) 0.10.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0 (including) 1.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0-preview_release (including) 1.0-preview_release (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.1 (including) 1.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.3 (including) 1.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.4 (including) 1.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.5 (including) 1.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.6 (including) 1.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.7 (including) 1.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.8 (including) 1.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.4.1 (including) 1.4.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5 (including) 1.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5-beta1 (including) 1.5-beta1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5-beta2 (including) 1.5-beta2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.1 (including) 1.5.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.2 (including) 1.5.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.3 (including) 1.5.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.4 (including) 1.5.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.5 (including) 1.5.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.6 (including) 1.5.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.7 (including) 1.5.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.8 (including) 1.5.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.9 (including) 1.5.0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.10 (including) 1.5.0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.11 (including) 1.5.0.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.12 (including) 1.5.0.12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.1 (including) 1.5.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.2 (including) 1.5.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.3 (including) 1.5.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.4 (including) 1.5.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.5 (including) 1.5.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.6 (including) 1.5.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.7 (including) 1.5.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.8 (including) 1.5.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.8 (including) 1.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0 (including) 2.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.1 (including) 2.0.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.2 (including) 2.0.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.3 (including) 2.0.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.4 (including) 2.0.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.5 (including) 2.0.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.6 (including) 2.0.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.7 (including) 2.0.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.8 (including) 2.0.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.9 (including) 2.0.0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.10 (including) 2.0.0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.11 (including) 2.0.0.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.12 (including) 2.0.0.12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.13 (including) 2.0.0.13 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.14 (including) 2.0.0.14 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.15 (including) 2.0.0.15 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.16 (including) 2.0.0.16 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.17 (including) 2.0.0.17 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.18 (including) 2.0.0.18 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.19 (including) 2.0.0.19 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.20 (including) 2.0.0.20 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0 (including) 3.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.1 (including) 3.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.2 (including) 3.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.3 (including) 3.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.4 (including) 3.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.5 (including) 3.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.6 (including) 3.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.7 (including) 3.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.8 (including) 3.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.9 (including) 3.0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.10 (including) 3.0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.11 (including) 3.0.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.12 (including) 3.0.12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.13 (including) 3.0.13 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.14 (including) 3.0.14 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.15 (including) 3.0.15 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.16 (including) 3.0.16 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.17 (including) 3.0.17 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.18 (including) 3.0.18 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.0.19 (including) 3.0.19 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5 (including) 3.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.1 (including) 3.5.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.2 (including) 3.5.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.3 (including) 3.5.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.4 (including) 3.5.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.5 (including) 3.5.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.6 (including) 3.5.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.7 (including) 3.5.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.8 (including) 3.5.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.9 (including) 3.5.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.10 (including) 3.5.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.11 (including) 3.5.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.12 (including) 3.5.12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.13 (including) 3.5.13 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.14 (including) 3.5.14 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.15 (including) 3.5.15 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.16 (including) 3.5.16 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.17 (including) 3.5.17 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.18 (including) 3.5.18 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.5.19 (including) 3.5.19 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6 (including) 3.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.2 (including) 3.6.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.3 (including) 3.6.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.4 (including) 3.6.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.6 (including) 3.6.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.7 (including) 3.6.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.8 (including) 3.6.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.9 (including) 3.6.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.10 (including) 3.6.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.11 (including) 3.6.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.12 (including) 3.6.12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.13 (including) 3.6.13 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.14 (including) 3.6.14 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.15 (including) 3.6.15 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.16 (including) 3.6.16 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.17 (including) 3.6.17 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.18 (including) 3.6.18 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.19 (including) 3.6.19 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.20 (including) 3.6.20 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.21 (including) 3.6.21 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.22 (including) 3.6.22 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.23 (including) 3.6.23 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.24 (including) 3.6.24 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.25 (including) 3.6.25 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.26 (including) 3.6.26 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.27 (including) 3.6.27 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6.28 (including) 3.6.28 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta1 (including) 4.0-beta1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta10 (including) 4.0-beta10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta11 (including) 4.0-beta11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta12 (including) 4.0-beta12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta2 (including) 4.0-beta2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta3 (including) 4.0-beta3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta4 (including) 4.0-beta4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta5 (including) 4.0-beta5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta6 (including) 4.0-beta6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta7 (including) 4.0-beta7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta8 (including) 4.0-beta8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0-beta9 (including) 4.0-beta9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 4.0.1 (including) 4.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 5.0.1 (including) 5.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 6.0.1 (including) 6.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 6.0.2 (including) 6.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 7.0.1 (including) 7.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 8.0.1 (including) 8.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 9.0 (including) 9.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 9.0.1 (including) 9.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.1 (including) 10.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.2 (including) 10.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.3 (including) 10.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.4 (including) 10.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.5 (including) 10.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.6 (including) 10.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.7 (including) 10.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.8 (including) 10.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.9 (including) 10.0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.10 (including) 10.0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.11 (including) 10.0.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 10.0.12 (including) 10.0.12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 11.0 (including) 11.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 12.0 (including) 12.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 12.0-beta6 (including) 12.0-beta6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 13.0 (including) 13.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 13.0.1 (including) 13.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 14.0 (including) 14.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 14.0.1 (including) 14.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 15.0 (including) 15.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 15.0.1 (including) 15.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 16.0 (including) 16.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 16.0.1 (including) 16.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 16.0.2 (including) 16.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0 (including) 17.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.1 (including) 17.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.2 (including) 17.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.3 (including) 17.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.4 (including) 17.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.5 (including) 17.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.6 (including) 17.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.7 (including) 17.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.8 (including) 17.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.9 (including) 17.0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.10 (including) 17.0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 17.0.11 (including) 17.0.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 18.0 (including) 18.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 18.0.1 (including) 18.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 18.0.2 (including) 18.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 19.0 (including) 19.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 19.0.1 (including) 19.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 19.0.2 (including) 19.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 20.0 (including) 20.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 20.0.1 (including) 20.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 21.0 (including) 21.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 22.0 (including) 22.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 23.0 (including) 23.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 23.0.1 (including) 23.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 24.0 (including) 24.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 24.1 (including) 24.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 24.1.1 (including) 24.1.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 25.0 (including) 25.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 25.0.1 (including) 25.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 26.0 (including) 26.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 27.0 (including) 27.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 27.0.1 (including) 27.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 28.0 (including) 28.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 29.0 (including) 29.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 29.0.1 (including) 29.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 30.0 (including) 30.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 31.0 (including) 31.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 31.1.0 (including) 31.1.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 32.0 (including) 32.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 33.0 (including) 33.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 34.0.5 (including) 34.0.5 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat firefox-0:31.5.0-1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat thunderbird-0:31.5.0-1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat firefox-0:31.5.0-1.el6_6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat thunderbird-0:31.5.0-1.el6_6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat firefox-0:31.5.0-2.el7_0 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xulrunner-0:31.5.0-1.el7_0 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat firefox-0:31.5.0-2.ael7b_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat thunderbird-0:31.5.0-2.el7_1 *
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu lucid *
Firefox Ubuntu precise *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu utopic *
Thunderbird Ubuntu devel *
Thunderbird Ubuntu lucid *
Thunderbird Ubuntu precise *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu utopic *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References