XMLHttpRequest crashes with some input streams — Mozilla

2014-12-0200:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.031

Percentile

91.1%

JSON

Security researcher Joe Vennix from Rapid7 reported that passing a JavaScript object to XMLHttpRequest that mimics an input stream will a crash. This crash is not exploitable and can only be used for denial of service attacks.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<34

mozillafirefox_esrRange<31.3

mozillafirefox_osRange<2.2

mozillaseamonkeyRange<2.31

mozillathunderbirdRange<31.3

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_esr*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_os*cpe:2.3:o:mozilla:firefox_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	firefox_esr	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
mozilla	firefox_os	*	cpe:2.3:o:mozilla:firefox_os::::::::
mozilla	seamonkey	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::