CVE-2015-4503

Published Sep 24, 2015

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description: The TCP Socket API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 mishandles array boundaries that were established with a navigator.mozTCPSocket.open method call and send method calls, which allows remote TCP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by reading packet data, as demonstrated by availability of this API in a Firefox OS application.
Source: security@mozilla.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-200

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "4EE7B0EF-4A3A-4353-8B50-6F28B5CADBDB",
            "versionEndIncluding": "40.0.3"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References