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Medium
CVE-2015-4478
Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2...
Vulnerability Description
Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 do not impose certain ECMAScript 6 requirements on JavaScript object properties, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via the reviver parameter to the JSON.parse method.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1105914
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-82.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3333
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
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ubuntu linux, opensuse, firefox
Vulnerable Versions:
12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 13.1, 13.2, 0, 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 16th, 2015
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.