Use-after-free vulnerability in XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2015-4492 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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