CVE-2015-7193: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 improperly follow the CORS cross-origin request algorithm for the POST method in situations involving an unspecified Content-Type header manipulation, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy by leveraging the lack of a preflight-request step.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 38.0 only; version 38.0.1 only; version 38.0.5 only; version 38.1.0 only; version 38.1.1 only; version 38.2.0 only; …

Published 2015-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.