CVE-2015-7223
The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sensitive information or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via a crafted
02 Description
The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sensitive information or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, via a crafted
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
- 1.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.8% 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
- Critical. 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
- 2015-12-16 11:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 07:43Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-09-16
- Assigning CNA
- mozilla
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- cc569aa73863bb50c3d4b52c457be596fa5946e8adbe8b373d307cc0f105caa8
05 Affected products
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201512-10https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:2353http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0308http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-7ab3d3afcfhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2833-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226423
- www.securityfocus.com79280http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79280
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-148.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0307http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-51b1105902http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html
- www.securitytracker.com1034426http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- firefox Fixed in 43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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