CVE-2015-4492 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free12 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV10.0
EPSS
2.3%
top 15.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla FirefoxCanonical Ubuntu LinuxOpensuse+1 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 16
Latest updateMay 14

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox39.0.3+4
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse13.1, 13.2+1
▶NVDoracle/solaris11.3

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-wrm5-mpfp-r9x4: Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox regression↗2015-08-20
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CVEList
CVE-2015-4492: Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40↗2015-08-16
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OSV
CVE-2015-4492: Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40↗2015-08-11
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-08-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2015-08-20
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-08-11
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Ubuntu
Ubufox update↗2015-08-11
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest with shared workers (MFSA 2015-92)↗2015-08-11
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-4492 Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest with shared workers (MFSA 2015-92)↗2015-08-11
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