CVE-2015-0818
published 2015-03-24CVE-2015-0818: Mozilla Firefox before 36.0.4, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.33.1 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute…
PriorityP340high7.5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCPIPAP
EPSS
3.13%
86.4th percentile
Mozilla Firefox before 36.0.4, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.33.1 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving SVG hash navigation.
Affected
19 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | <= 36.0.3 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | <= 31.5.3 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | <= 36.0.4 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 37.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 37.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox_esr | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox_esr | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox_esr | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox_esr | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox_esr | — | — |
| mozilla | seamonkey | <= 2.33.0 | — |
| mozilla | thunderbird | <= 31.5 | — |
| mozilla | thunderbird | >= 0 < 1:31.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 1:31.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu6.8MEDIUM
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GHSA
GHSA-rr7h-5qv5-g84f: Mozilla Firefox before 36
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2015-0818 [HIGH] GHSA-rr7h-5qv5-g84f: Mozilla Firefox before 36
Mozilla Firefox before 36.0.4, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.33.1 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving SVG hash navigation.
GHSA
GHSA-q4j2-qr5x-493m: Mozilla Firefox before 37
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-0801 [HIGH] GHSA-q4j2-qr5x-493m: Mozilla Firefox before 37
Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving anchor navigation, a similar issue to CVE-2015-0818.
OSV
CVE-2015-0801: Mozilla Firefox before 37
osv·2015-04-01·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-0801 [HIGH] CVE-2015-0801: Mozilla Firefox before 37
Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving anchor navigation, a similar issue to CVE-2015-0818.
OSV
CVE-2015-0818: Mozilla Firefox before 36
osv·2015-03-22·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-0818 [HIGH] CVE-2015-0818: Mozilla Firefox before 36
Mozilla Firefox before 36.0.4, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.33.1 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving SVG hash navigation.
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2015-03-22·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2015-0817 [MEDIUM] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
A flaw was discovered in the implementation of typed array bounds checking
in the Javascript just-in-time compilation. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2015-0817)
Mariusz Mlynski discovered a flaw in the processing of SVG format content
navigation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could exploit this to run arbitrary script in a
privileged context. (CVE-2015-0818)
Red Hat
Mozilla: Same-origin bypass through anchor navigation (MFSA 2015-40)
vendor_redhat·2015-03-31·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-0801 [HIGH] CWE-358 Mozilla: Same-origin bypass through anchor navigation (MFSA 2015-40)
Mozilla: Same-origin bypass through anchor navigation (MFSA 2015-40)
Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving anchor navigation, a similar issue to CVE-2015-0818.
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-03-22·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2015-0817 [MEDIUM] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
A flaw was discovered in the implementation of typed array bounds checking
in the Javascript just-in-time compilation. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2015-0817)
Mariusz Mlynski discovered a flaw in the processing of SVG format content
navigation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could exploit this to run arbitrary script in a
privileged context. (CVE-2015-0818)
Instructions: After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary change
Red Hat
Mozilla: Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (MFSA 2015-28)
vendor_redhat·2015-03-21·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-0818 [HIGH] Mozilla: Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (MFSA 2015-28)
Mozilla: Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (MFSA 2015-28)
Mozilla Firefox before 36.0.4, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.33.1 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving SVG hash navigation.
Statement: This issue does not affect the version of thunderbird package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
arXiv
Most Websites Don't Need to Vibrate: A Cost-Benefit Approach to Improving Browser Security
arxiv_fulltext·2017-09-05
Most Websites Don't Need to Vibrate: A Cost-Benefit Approach to Improving Browser Security
Most Websites Don't Need to Vibrate:
A Cost--Benefit Approach to Improving Browser Security
Peter Snyder
University Of Illinois at Chicago
[email protected]
Cynthia Taylor
University Of Illinois at Chicago
[email protected]
Chris Kanich
University Of Illinois at Chicago
[email protected]
JavaScript
Web API standard
Web API
Web API standards
Alexa 10k
Firefox 43.0.1
74
1679
40
60
96.74%
.03
1,554
41
953
175
39
188
13
https://github.com/snyderp/firefox-api-blocking-extension
URL Redacted for review.
URL Redacted for review.
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purplergb0.65, 0.12, 0.82
JavaScript
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-0818 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (MFSA 2015-28)
bugzilla·2015-03-21·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-0818 [HIGH] CVE-2015-0818 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (MFSA 2015-28)
CVE-2015-0818 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (MFSA 2015-28)
Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported, through HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest, a method to run arbitrary scripts in a privileged context. This bypassed the same-origin policy protections by using a flaw in the processing of SVG format content navigation.
External Reference:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mariusz Mlynski as the original reporter.
Statement:
This issue does not affect the version of thunderbird package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
Discussion:
This issue has been addressed in the following products:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00029.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00035.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00096.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0718.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3201http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-28.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73265http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031959http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2538-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1144988https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00029.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00035.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00096.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0718.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3201http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-28.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73265http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031959http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2538-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1144988https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
2015-03-24
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