Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting mozilla package, versions [,40.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378734
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Aug 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-4492  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 40.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. 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.

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