CVE-2015-0802

medium
Published 2015-04-01 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 relies on docshell type information instead of page principal information for Window.webidl access control, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via certain content navigation that leverages the reachability of a privileged window with an unintended persistence of access to restricted internal methods.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37958 remote multiple verified
Metasploit ยท 2015-08-24

Mozilla Firefox - 'pdf.js' Privileged JavaScript Injection (Metasploit)

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Metasploit modules

Firefox PDF.js Privileged Javascript Injection
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Firefox Proxy Prototype Privileged Javascript Injection
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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected โ€”
14.04 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"36.0.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.