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CVE-2015-7190 (GCVE-0-2015-7190)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-05 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:43
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Summary
The Search feature in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 on Android through 4.4 supports search-engine URL registration through an intent and can access this URL in a privileged context in conjunction with the crash reporter, which allows attackers to read log files and visit file: URLs of HTML documents via a crafted application.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-11-03 00:00
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