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CVE-2015-4515 (GCVE-0-2015-4515)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-05 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:18
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Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 42.0, when NTLM v1 is enabled for HTTP authentication, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive hostname information by constructing a crafted web site that sends an NTLM request and reads the Workstation field of an NTLM type 3 message.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-11-03 00:00
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