PT-2015-5856 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Published 2015-05-12 · Updated 2017-01-03 · CVE-2015-2720

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 38.0

Description The issue is related to the update implementation in Mozilla Firefox on Windows, where it does not properly verify the pathname for updater.exe, potentially allowing local users to gain privileges through a Trojan horse file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 38.0, update to version 38.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1463

ALT-PU-2015-1464

CVE-2015-2720

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

References · 120

• 🔥 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
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1463 · 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://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09816 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09901 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0828 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8640 · Security Note