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HistoryAug 11, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

Feed protocol with POST bypasses mixed content protections — Mozilla

2015-08-1100:00:00
Mozilla Foundation
www.mozilla.org
14

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

59.4%

Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported that opening a target page using a POST to the url prefixed with the feed: protocol disables the mixed content blocker for that page. This could allow for the risk of a man-in-the-middle (MITM) scripting attack on pages that accidentally include insecure content which would otherwise be blocked.

CPENameOperatorVersion
firefoxlt40
seamonkeylt2.38

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

59.4%