CVE-2015-0816
Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 do not properly restrict resource: URLs, which…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 65.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Firefox PDF.js Privileged Javascript Injection (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalationRank manualdisclosed 31 Mar 2015
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Mozilla Firefox - 'pdf.js' Privileged JavaScript Injection (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37958remote, multiplepublished 24 Aug 2015Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 37958 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 65.5% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
18
- 1031996 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 73461 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0892 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201512-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-3212 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 37958 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0704 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2552-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1144991 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0766 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-33.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1266 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2550-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 1032000 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0677 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0771 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3211 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0829 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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