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CVE-2015-0798

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Reader mode feature in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0.1 on Android, and Desktop Firefox pre-release, does not properly handle privileged 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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 37.0
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-43.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032029
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1147597
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-43.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032029
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1147597
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10

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