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CVE-2015-8512

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox Os: through 2.2

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-151.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181571
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-151.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181571

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