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HistoryNov 03, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

Trailing whitespace in IP address hostnames can bypass same-origin policy — Mozilla

2015-11-0300:00:00
Mozilla Foundation
www.mozilla.org
17

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.016 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.4%

Security researcher Michał Bentkowski reported that adding white-space characters to hostnames that are IP addresses can bypass same-origin policy. This flaw was caused by trailing whitespaces being evaluated differently when parsing IP addresses instead of alphanumeric hostnames. This could lead to a cross-site script (XSS) attack.

CPENameOperatorVersion
firefoxlt42
firefox esrlt38.4
thunderbirdlt38.4

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.016 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.4%