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CVE-2015-2727

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2727 affects Mozilla Firefox 38.0 and Firefox ESR 38.0, allowing user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files or execute JavaScript with chrome privileges through a crafted website. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity with network access, medium attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
38.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0181 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:38.1.0-1.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:38.1.0-1.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:38.1.0-1.ael7b_1
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-2727Moderate

Mozilla: Local files or privileged URLs in pages can be opened into new tabs (MFSA 2015-60)

Jul 2, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201512-10
mozilla.org / security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-60.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
securityfocus.com / bid/75541
securitytracker.com / id/1032783
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2656-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2656-2