CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-4492

7.5 HIGH Published 2015-08-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• oracle solaris 11.3 • mozilla firefox (<= 39.0.3) • mozilla firefox 38.0 • mozilla firefox 38.0.1 • mozilla firefox 38.0.5 • mozilla firefox 38.1.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.04 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2

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