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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…
High7.5EPSS 4.5%
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- Updated
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- mozilla
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.5% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (18)
- 76297 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:2081 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-92.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1454 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2702-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1389 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1453 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1586 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1528 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1033247 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- USN-2702-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2702-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- GLSA-201605-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1449 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185820 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3333 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1390 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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