CVE-2015-2743

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

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.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 38.1.0; 31.0, 31.1.0, 31.1.1, 31.3.0, 31.5.1, 31.5.2 (+2)
Mozilla Firefox ESR: 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4, 31.5, 31.6.0 (+1)
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 12.0
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp4, 12.0
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12.0
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3300
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-69.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783

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