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CVE-2016-5259

CVSS v3.0 8.8 (High)
88% Progress
CVSS v2.0 6.8 (Medium)
68% Progress
EPSS 3.02 % (91th)
3.02% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 11
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Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.

Weaknesses
CWE-416
Use After Free
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Mozilla Corporation
Published Date
2016-08-05 01:59:15
(8 years ago)
Updated Date
2019-12-27 16:08:55
(4 years ago)

Affected Products

Mozilla

Oracle

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Mozilla Firefox 47.0.1 and prior versions cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox <= 47.0.1
  Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.0
  Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.1
  Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.2.0
  Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.3.0

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Oracle Linux 5.0 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:5.0
  Oracle Linux 6 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:6
  Oracle Linux 7 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7