CVE-2014-8636 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8636?

CVE-2014-8636 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 14 Jan 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The XrayWrapper implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 35.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.32 does not properly interact with a DOM object that has a named getter, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8636?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8636?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2014-8636 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2014-8636 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7xcg-82gw-cm6p, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8636.