{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0832","details":"Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . (dot) character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.509 certificate for a domain with this character.","modified":"2026-04-22T10:01:13.256157Z","published":"2015-02-25T00:00:00Z","related":["USN-2505-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-0832"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0832"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-13/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065909"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-13.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2505-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0832"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"firefox","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"}]}],"versions":["24.0+build1-0ubuntu1","25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1","28.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu2","28.0+build1-0ubuntu1","28.0+build2-0ubuntu1","28.0+build2-0ubuntu2","29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3","31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","35.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"firefox","binary_version":"36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"},{"binary_name":"firefox-globalmenu","binary_version":"36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"},{"binary_name":"firefox-mozsymbols","binary_version":"36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"},{"binary_name":"firefox-testsuite","binary_version":"36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0832.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}