CVE-2016-1959 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The ServiceWorkerManager class in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and memory corruption) via unspecified use of the Clients API.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-22.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234949
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1959
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1959
https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-22.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2016-03-13T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:10:40.283Z

Reserved: 2016-01-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-1959

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-03-13T18:59:08.583

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-1959

Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1959 - Bugzilla

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