PT-2014-4235 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+6

Published 2014-10-01 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2014-1583

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 33.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 31.2

Description The issue is related to the Alarm API in Mozilla Firefox, which does not properly restrict toJSON calls. This allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted API calls, accessing sensitive information within the JSON data of an alarm.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 33.0, update to version 33.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 31.2, update to version 31.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2225

ALT-PU-2015-1464

CESA-2014_1635

CVE-2014-1583

DSA-3050-1

MGASA-2014-0419

MGASA-2014-0421

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2014:1635

RHSA-2014_1635

USN-2372-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2289

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proxy_prototype.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation.rb · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09815 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8635 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-82.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2715 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8638 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-68.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0826 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0831 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09885 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0805 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-70.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2706 · Security Note