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CVE-2015-4492

Date: August 15, 2015

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.

Severity Score

7.3

Related Resources (22)

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3333

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185820

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76297

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4492

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-92.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-4492

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4492

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-4492

Severity Score

7.3

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2015-4492

Date: August 15, 2015

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