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Mozilla Suite/Firefox compareTo() Code Execution

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Mozilla Suite/Firefox compareTo() Code Execution

Disclosed
07/13/2005
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a code execution vulnerability in the Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird applications. This exploit module is a direct port of Aviv Raff's HTML PoC.

Author(s)

  • hdm <x@hdm.io>
  • Aviv Raff <avivra@gmail.com>

Platform

Windows

Development

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/mozilla_compareto
msf exploit(mozilla_compareto) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(mozilla_compareto) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(mozilla_compareto) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(mozilla_compareto) > exploit

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