CVE-2015-0816

Mozilla: resource: // documents can load privileged pages (MFSA 2015-33)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 31, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the way documents were loaded via resource URLs in, for example, Mozilla's PDF.js PDF file viewer. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass certain restrictions and under certain conditions even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-250 · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges