CVE-2015-0816

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 65.5% 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, 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.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 31.5.3; through 36.0.4
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 31.5

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0766.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0771.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3211
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3212
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-33.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73461
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031996

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