Use-after-free vulnerability in the ServiceWorkerInfo class in the Service Worker subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote…

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ServiceWorkerInfo class in the Service Worker subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the BeginReading method.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• openSUSE-SU-2016:1211 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1252330 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1035692 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2016:1251 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2936-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• GLSA-201701-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-42.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2936-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2936-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• 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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[![CVE-2016-2811](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2016-2811.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-2811)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 23:32 UTC.