CVE-2015-7223
published 2015-12-16CVE-2015-7223: The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sensitive information or conduct cross-site…
PriorityP416medium4CVSS 2.0
AVNACHAuNCPIPAN
EPSS
1.78%
75.8th percentile
The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sensitive information or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via a crafted web site.
Affected
7 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedoraproject | fedora | — | — |
| fedoraproject | fedora | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | <= 42.0 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| opensuse | leap | — | — |
| opensuse | opensuse | — | — |
| opensuse | opensuse | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.04.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
osv10.0CRITICAL
vendor_ubuntu10.0CRITICAL
vendor_redhat4.0MEDIUM
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Privilege escalation vulnerabilities in WebExtension APIs (MFSA 2015-148)
vendor_redhat·2015-12-16·CVSS 4.0
CVE-2015-7223 [MEDIUM] Mozilla: Privilege escalation vulnerabilities in WebExtension APIs (MFSA 2015-148)
Mozilla: Privilege escalation vulnerabilities in WebExtension APIs (MFSA 2015-148)
The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sensitive information or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via a crafted web site.
Statement: This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not a
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-12-15·CVSS 10.0
CVE-2015-7201 [CRITICAL] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman,
Eric Rahm, Robert Kaiser, Harald Kirschner, and Michael Henretty
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-7201, CVE-2015-7202)
Ronald Crane discovered three buffer overflows through code inspection.
If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial
GHSA
GHSA-q5v7-p6px-6x4f: The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2015-7223 [MEDIUM] GHSA-q5v7-p6px-6x4f: The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43
The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sensitive information or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via a crafted web site.
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2015-12-15·CVSS 10.0
CVE-2015-7201 [CRITICAL] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman,
Eric Rahm, Robert Kaiser, Harald Kirschner, and Michael Henretty
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-7201, CVE-2015-7202)
Ronald Crane discovered three buffer overflows through code inspection.
If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via
application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user invoking Firefox. (C
OSV
CVE-2015-7223: The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43
osv·2015-12-15·CVSS 4.0
CVE-2015-7223 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-7223: The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43
The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sensitive information or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via a crafted web site.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-148.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79280http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226423https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-148.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79280http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226423https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
2015-12-16
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