I can confirm this does not affect HTTPS Everywhere for Android or Firefox.  
HTTPS Everywhere for Opera is essentially the same addon as for Chrome, so I 
have't tested Opera but if it was affected it has been fixed now.

Hope this helps!
Bill Budington
Software Engineer
Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/

On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:09:11 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Can you confirm, that other platforms (Firefox, Android, Opera) are not
> affected?
> You may forward this to the oss-security list and request a CVE.
> 
> Regards,
> Jonas
> 
> Am 08.04.2016 um 23:50 schrieb William Budington:
> > HTTPS Everywhere Chrome users: be advised that a security vulnerability has 
> > been found of moderate severity with versions <= 2016.3.23 of the 
> > extension.  This has been fixed as of the latest version, 2016.4.4, 
> > released earlier this week and available via the Chrome Web Store.[1]
> >
> > The vulnerability, discovered by Dylan Katz[2], allows any remote website 
> > to cause the Chrome browser to hang indefinitely by triggering a redirect 
> > in HTTPS Everywhere with a specially-crafted URL.  We thank Dylan for 
> > reporting this to us and allowing us to fix it in a timely manner.
> >
> > This was disclosed as a part of EFF's Security Vulnerability Disclosure 
> > Program[3], launched in December of last year.
> >
> > 1. 
> > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/gcbommkclmclpchllfjekcdonpmejbdp
> > 2. https://www.eff.org/security/hall-of-fame
> > 3. https://www.eff.org/security
> >
> >
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