PT-2014-8655 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Published 2014-11-01 · Updated 2016-12-22 · CVE-2014-8631

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 34.0 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.31

Description The issue concerns the Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended DOM object restrictions. This is achieved through a call to an unspecified method, enabling native-interface passing.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 34.0, update to version 34.0 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.31, update to version 2.31 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2319

ALT-PU-2014-2449

ALT-PU-2015-1464

CVE-2014-8631

MGASA-2014-0518

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Seamonkey

References · 133

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proxy_prototype.rb · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09904 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1590 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0825 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1591 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2014-88 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1581 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1594 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0802 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09888 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2711 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2449 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09816 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09901 · Security Note