Vulnerability CVE-2015-0832
Published: 2015-02-25

Description:
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-254

 (Security Features)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Mozilla -> Firefox 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-13.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72752
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065909
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
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