CVE-2015-4487

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Modified
Published: 16 Aug 2015, 01:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 06:18

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
2.26% LOW
2% probability -0.41%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

16 Aug 2015, 01:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 06:18
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The nsTSubstring::ReplacePrep function in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2, and Firefox OS before 2.2 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, related to an "overflow."

CVSS Metrics

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

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.26%• Percentile: 85%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    12.04 | 14.04 | 15.04

  • mozilla•firefox

    ≤ 39.0.3 | 38.0 | 38.0.1 | 38.0.5 | 38.1.0

  • mozilla•firefox_os

    ≤ 2.1.0

  • opensuse•opensuse

    13.1 | 13.2

  • Unknown•Solaris

    11.3

References (21)