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Firefox PDF.js Privileged Javascript Injection

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Disclosed
Mar 31, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module gains remote code execution on Firefox 35-36 by abusing a
privilege escalation bug in resource:// URIs. PDF.js is used to exploit
the bug. This exploit requires the user to click anywhere on the page to
trigger the vulnerability.

Authors

Unknown
Marius Mlynski
joev [email protected]

Platform

Firefox,Java,Linux,OSX,Solaris,Windows

Architectures

firefox, x86, x86_64, x64, mips, mipsle, mipsbe, mips64, mips64le, ppc, ppce500v2, ppc64, ppc64le, cbea, cbea64, sparc, sparc64, armle, armbe, aarch64, cmd, php, tty, java, ruby, dalvik, python, nodejs, zarch, r, riscv32be, riscv32le, riscv64be, riscv64le, loongarch64

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation
    msf exploit(firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation) > exploit
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