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CVE-2015-4497: mozilla firefox

CVSS: 10.0v2.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2015-4497
Published 29-08-2015Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-4497 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 8.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
10.0/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
8.01%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 5
DSA-3345-1MGASA-2015-0331OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1RHSA-2015:1693SUSE-SU-2015:1476-1

Timeline

  1. 29-08-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanvasRenderingContext2D implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between resize events and changes to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences for a CANVAS element.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

8.01%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

95%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 8.01% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
8.01%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Mozilla1 product
  • firefox38.0 | 38.0.1 | 38.0.5 | 38.1.0 | 38.2.0 | 40.0.2
Ubuntu1 product
  • firefox< 40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

2 vendors · 2 products

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