Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2015-4492
Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SharedWorker object that makes recursive calls to the open method of an XMLHttpRequest object.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.051 (92.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.051 · newest: 0.051 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.3
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
- openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/76297 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-92.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html (vendor-advisory)