CVE-2015-0804

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 4
Modified
Published: 01 Apr 2015, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 04:26

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.91% LOW
2% probability +0.23%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

01 Apr 2015, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 04:26
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The HTMLSourceElement::BindToTree function in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 does not properly constrain a data type after omitting namespace validation during certain tree-binding operations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted HTML document containing a SOURCE element.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.91%• Percentile: 84%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    12.04 | 14.04 | 14.10

  • Unknown•Firefox

    ≤ 36.0.4

  • opensuse•opensuse

    13.1 | 13.2

References (7)