CVE-2011-2990
The implementation of Content Security Policy (CSP) violation reports in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 5, SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3, and possibly other products does not remove proxy-authorization credentials from the listed request headers, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a report, related to incorrect host resolution that occurs with certain redirects.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-255
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (62th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-2958)
- Published
- August 18, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-2958 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
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- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664983
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679588
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14458
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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