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CVE-2015-7207

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7207 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 43.0 that allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy. This is achieved by exploiting improper restrictions on IFRAME Resource Timing API times, enabling crafted JavaScript to leverage history.back and performance.getEntries calls to obtain sensitive information. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 42.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
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
2.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0280 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

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 (2)

github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-7207Moderate

Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using perfomance.getEntries and history navigation (MFSA 2015-136)

Dec 16, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00089.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
github.com / w3c/resource-timing/issues/29
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201512-10
mozilla.org / security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-136.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/79280
securitytracker.com / id/1034426
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2833-1