01 Record

CVE-2015-2715

Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mozilla

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 2.18% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 81.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: The NVD has published no score for this record
NVD CVSS vector: No NVD score to derive
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2015-05-14 10:00Z11 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 05:24Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2015-03-25

Assigning CNA

mozilla

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
CWE-416Use After FreeVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

842ec49064a1b884ac1d469efa30bf4a8a2ce7657ca35da0d6651ec8e8eeb65d

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

mozillafirefoxNot specified—

opensuseopensuseNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—

06 References

www.ubuntu.comUSN-2602-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
www.securityfocus.com74611http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988698x_refsource_CONFIRM
www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:0934http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201605-06https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-53.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM

07 Fixed in

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

firefox
Fixed in 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

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