Mozilla Firefox CVE-2015-4515 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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Security researcher Tim Brown reported that Firefox discloses the hostname and possibly the Windows domain through NTLM-based HTTP authentication when sending type 3 messages as part of the authentication exchange. This is because the Workstation field is populated with the hostname of the system making the request. An attacker can craft a malicious page to send a silent NTLM request that will disclose the information without visibility in the client, leading to information disclosure. This is mitigated because NTLM v1 is disabled by default configurations.

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Firefox

CVE References

CVE-2015-4515