CVE-2015-8511

Published: Jan 9, 2016Modified: May 6, 2026

6.4

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 0.5 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

Race condition in the lockscreen feature in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.5 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an intended passcode requirement via unspecified vectors.

Affected (1)

Products: Mozilla: Firefox Os

Mozilla

1 product

Firefox Os

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Mozilla Firefox Os	Up to 2.2

Related CWEs

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

References (4)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-152.html

Source: security@mozilla.org

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173284

Source: security@mozilla.org

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-152.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173284

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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