Firefox ESR 31.x < 31.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82499

Synopsis

The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Firefox ESR 31.x installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 31.6. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- A privilege escalation vulnerability exists which relates to anchor navigation. A remote attacker can exploit this to bypass same-origin policy protections, allowing a possible execution of arbitrary scripts in a privileged context. Note that this is a variant of CVE-2015-0818 that was fixed in Firefox ESR 31.5.3.
(CVE-2015-0801)

- Access to certain privileged internal methods is retained when navigating from windows created to contain privileged UI content to unprivileged pages. An attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary JavaScript with elevated privileges. (CVE-2015-0802)

- A cross-site request forgery (XSRF) vulnerability exists in the sendBeacon() function due to cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests following 30x redirections. (CVE-2015-0807)

- Multiple memory safety issues exist within the browser engine. A remote attacker can exploit these to corrupt memory and possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2015-0815)

- A privilege escalation vulnerability exists related to documents loaded through a 'resource:' URL. An attacker can exploit this to load pages and execute JavaScript with elevated privileges. (CVE-2015-0816)

Solution

Upgrade to Firefox ESR 31.6 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-30/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-33/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-37/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-40/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82499

File Name: macosx_firefox_31_6_esr.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 4/1/2015

Updated: 7/14/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_esr

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Installed

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2015

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Firefox PDF.js Privileged Javascript Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0801, CVE-2015-0802, CVE-2015-0807, CVE-2015-0815, CVE-2015-0816

BID: 73454, 73455, 73457, 73461, 73466