UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4478

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4478

    Published: 11 Aug 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-4478
    Aliases:
    USN-2702-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4478, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-82/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2702-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4478

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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