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CVE-2015-0802

67
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0802 is a critical vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 37.0, affecting various Canonical and OpenSUSE distributions as well. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges due to improper access control for Window.webidl. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) but a FAUCET Risk Score of 99/100, indicating a high potential for impact, specifically unauthorized modification of data. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit modules are publicly available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, demonstrating its exploitability. Despite the availability of exploit code, there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
67.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Firefox PDF.js Privileged Javascript Injection · Mar 31, 2015
ExploitDB: EDB-37958 · Aug 24, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6727 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-0802Moderate

Mozilla: Windows can retain access to privileged content on navigation to unprivileged pages (MFSA 2015-42)

Mar 31, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201512-10
exploit-db.com / exploits/37958
mozilla.org / security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-42.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
securitytracker.com / id/1031996
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2550-1