CVE-2015-7208

Mozilla: Firefox allows for control characters to be set in cookies (MFSA 2015-137)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 16, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 stores cookies containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading HTTP Cookie headers.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE not specified