National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2990

Overview

The implementation of Content Security Policy (CSP) violation reports in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 5, SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3, and possibly other products does not remove proxy-authorization credentials from the listed request headers, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a report, related to incorrect host resolution that occurs with certain redirects.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679588

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679588

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664983

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664983

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14458

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14458

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2011:037

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14458

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14458