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CVE-2015-0803

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0803 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 37.0, affecting various Canonical and openSUSE distributions as well. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through a crafted HTML document by improperly handling data type constraints during the setting of a SOURCE element's attributes. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating its perceived importance.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0367 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-2015-0803Critical

Mozilla: Use-after-free due to type confusion flaws (MFSA 2015-39)

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
mozilla.org / security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-39.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
securitytracker.com / id/1031996
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2550-1