CVE-2015-2743

Mozilla: Privilege escalation through internal workers (MFSA 2015-69)

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

PDF.js in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1 enables excessive privileges for internal Workers, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging a Same Origin Policy bypass.

PDF.js en Mozilla Firefox anterior a 39.0 y Firefox ESR 31.x anterior a 31.8 y 38.x anterior a 38.1 habilita privilegios excesivos para los trabajadores internos, lo que podría permitir a atacantes remotos ejecutar código arbitrario mediante el aprovechamiento de una evasión de Same Origin Policy.

A flaw was discovered in Mozilla's PDF.js PDF file viewer. When combined with another vulnerability, it could allow execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2015-03-25 CVE Reserved
2015-07-03 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2024-09-19 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-17: DEPRECATED: Code
CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

CAPEC

References (18)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html	Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541	Vdb Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783	Vdb Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163109	Issue Tracking

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html	2023-09-12
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html	2023-09-12
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00033.html	2023-09-12
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00034.html	2023-09-12
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html	2023-09-12
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html	2023-09-12
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3300	2023-09-12
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-69.html	2023-09-12
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-1	2023-09-12
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-2	2023-09-12
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10	2023-09-12
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2743	2015-07-03
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236964	2015-07-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.1 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.1"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.1.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.1.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.1.1 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.1.1"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.2 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.2"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.3 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.3"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.3.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.3.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.4 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.4"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.5 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.5"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.5.1 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.5.1"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.5.2 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.5.2"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.5.3 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.5.3"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.6.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.6.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				31.7.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "31.7.0"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Esr Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr"				38.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox Esr" and version "38.0"		-		Affected
Oracle Search vendor "Oracle"		Solaris Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Solaris"				11.3 Search vendor "Oracle" for product "Solaris" and version "11.3"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox"				<= 38.1.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " <= 38.1.0"		-		Affected
Novell Search vendor "Novell"		Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit Search vendor "Novell" for product "Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit"				12.0 Search vendor "Novell" for product "Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit" and version "12.0"		-		Affected
Novell Search vendor "Novell"		Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop Search vendor "Novell" for product "Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop"				12.0 Search vendor "Novell" for product "Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop" and version "12.0"		-		Affected
Novell Search vendor "Novell"		Suse Linux Enterprise Server Search vendor "Novell" for product "Suse Linux Enterprise Server"				11 Search vendor "Novell" for product "Suse Linux Enterprise Server" and version "11"		sp4		Affected
Novell Search vendor "Novell"		Suse Linux Enterprise Server Search vendor "Novell" for product "Suse Linux Enterprise Server"				12.0 Search vendor "Novell" for product "Suse Linux Enterprise Server" and version "12.0"		-		Affected