FKIE_CVE-2015-4492
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-08-16 01:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:27
Severity
Summary
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.
References
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