Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 relies on docshell type information instead of page principal information for Window.webidl access control,…

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 relies on docshell type information instead of page principal information for Window.webidl access control, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via certain content navigation that leverages the reachability of a privileged window with an unintended persistence of access to restricted internal methods.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

65.9% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124898 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1031996 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• GLSA-201512-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-42.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 37958 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2550-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:0677 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 04:26 UTC.