CVE-2015-8512 - Improper Access Control

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The lockscreen feature in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.5 does not properly restrict failed authentication attempts, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain access by entering many passcode guesses.

The lockscreen feature in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.5 does not properly restrict failed authentication attempts, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain access by entering many passcode guesses.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: physical. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2016-01-09 02:59:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2016-01-14 15:28:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox OS

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-151.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181571

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