Use After Free Affecting mozilla package, versions [,58)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379118
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-5092  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 58 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when the thread for a Web Worker is freed from memory prematurely instead of from memory in the main thread while cancelling fetch operations. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1