CVE-2015-0802

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 65.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Mozilla Firefox: through 36.0.4
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-42.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031996
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2550-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124898
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37958/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-42.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031996

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