CVE-2015-2728

high

Published 2015-07-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The IndexedDatabaseManager class in the IndexedDB implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1 misinterprets an unspecified IDBDatabase field as a pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
suse	11	affected
suse	12.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mozilla	firefox	`31.0`
mozilla	firefox	`31.1.0`
mozilla	firefox	`31.1.1`
mozilla	firefox	`31.3.0`
mozilla	firefox	`31.5.1`
mozilla	firefox	`31.5.2`
mozilla	firefox	`31.5.3`
mozilla	firefox	`38.0`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.1`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.2`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.3`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.4`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.5`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.6.0`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.7.0`
mozilla	firefox	`{"endIncluding":"38.1.0"}`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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