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.
EPSS: 0.051 (91.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)