Bug 1291599 (CVE-2015-7223) - CVE-2015-7223 Mozilla: Privilege escalation vulnerabilities in WebExtension APIs (MFSA 2015-148)
Summary: CVE-2015-7223 Mozilla: Privilege escalation vulnerabilities in WebExtension A...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-7223
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1290704
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Reported: 2015-12-15 09:01 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-16 09:04:20 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 09:01:18 UTC 
Mozilla developer Kris Maglione reported a mechanism where WebExtension APIs could be used to escalate privilege. This could allow arbitrary web content to execute code with the privileges of a particular WebExtension when using these API calls. Depending on the privileges of the extension used, this could result in personal information theft and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, including theft of browser cookies. This is mitigated by the requirement to have a WebExtension installed that is vulnerable to this issue. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-148.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Kris Maglione as the original reporter.

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This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
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