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CVE-2015-0816 (GCVE-0-2015-0816)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-01 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:26
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 do not properly restrict resource: URLs, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by leveraging the ability to bypass the Same Origin Policy, as demonstrated by the resource: URL associated with PDF.js.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73461 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3212 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37958/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2552-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1144991 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0766.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2550-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032000 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0771.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3211 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2015-03-31 00:00
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}



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