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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-7327

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 does not properly restrict the availability of High Resolution Time API times, which allows remote attackers to track last-level cache access, and consequently obtain sensitive information, via crafted JavaScript code that makes performance.now calls.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published