Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5259

8.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.
Published Date August 5, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory