CVE-2015-7223

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2833-1

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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 web site.

Las APIs WebExtension en Mozilla Firefox en versiones anteriores a 43.0 permite a atacantes remotos obtener privilegios y posiblemente obtener información sensible o llevar a cabo ataques de cross-site scripting (XSS) a través de un sitio web manipulado.

Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Eric Rahm, Robert Kaiser, Harald Kirschner, and Michael Henretty discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Ronald Crane discovered three buffer overflows through code inspection. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Various other issues were also addressed.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2015-09-16 CVE Reserved
2015-12-16 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CAPEC

References (11)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79280	Vdb Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426	Vdb Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226423	Issue Tracking

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html	2018-10-30
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html	2018-10-30
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html	2018-10-30
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html	2018-10-30
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html	2018-10-30
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-148.html	2018-10-30
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1	2018-10-30
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10	2018-10-30

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				22 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "22"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				23 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "23"		-		Affected
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"		Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox"				<= 42.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " <= 42.0"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Leap Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap"				42.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Leap" and version "42.1"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse"				13.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" and version "13.1"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse"				13.2 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" and version "13.2"		-		Affected