Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 3 public exploits for CVE-2015-0802.
PoCs published by Metasploit, Unknown, Marius Mlynski, joev, joev, including Metasploit module exploits/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This Metasploit module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability in Firefox 35-36 by abusing resource:// URIs and PDF.js to inject privileged JavaScript, leading to remote code execution. The exploit requires user interaction (clicking on the page) to trigger the vulnerability.
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.
Exploits (3)
This Metasploit module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability in Firefox 35-36 by abusing resource:// URIs and PDF.js to inject privileged JavaScript, leading to remote code execution. The exploit requires user interaction (clicking on the page) to trigger the vulnerability.
This Metasploit module exploits CVE-2015-0802, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Firefox 35-36, by injecting privileged JavaScript via PDF.js and abusing resource:// URIs to achieve remote code execution. The exploit requires user interaction (clicking on the page) to trigger the vulnerability.
This Metasploit module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability in Firefox 31-34 by abusing a bug in the XPConnect component to gain access to the privileged chrome:// window, leading to remote code execution. The exploit requires user interaction (clicking on the page) to trigger the vulnerability.