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CVE-2015-2743

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

Severity Score

9.8
*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*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.

USN-2656-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and later releases. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property. Looben Yan discovered 2 use-after-free issues when using XMLHttpRequest in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Various other issues were also addressed.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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
  • 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-17: DEPRECATED: Code
  • CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.0
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.1
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.1.0
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.1.1
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.2
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.3
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.3.0
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.4
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.5
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.5.1
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Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.5.2
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.5.3
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Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.6.0
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Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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31.7.0
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox Esr
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38.0
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Affected
Oracle
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Solaris
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11.3
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-
Affected
Mozilla
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Firefox
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<= 38.1.0
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-
Affected
Novell
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Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
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12.0
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-
Affected
Novell
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Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop
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12.0
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-
Affected
Novell
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Suse Linux Enterprise Server
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11
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sp4
Affected
Novell
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Suse Linux Enterprise Server
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12.0
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-
Affected