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CVE-2016-5259

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.

  • Published: Aug 5, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2016-5259
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 8.8
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.8
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
mozilla / firefox - 47.0.1.x
mozilla / firefox_esr 45.1.1 45.1.1.x
mozilla / firefox_esr 45.1.0 45.1.0.x
mozilla / firefox_esr 45.2.0 45.2.0.x
mozilla / firefox_esr 45.3.0 45.3.0.x
oracle / linux 5.0 5.0.x
oracle / linux 6 6.x
oracle / linux 7 7.x