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CVE-2015-7214

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7214 describes a Same Origin Policy bypass vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.5, affecting products like Fedora and openSUSE. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows remote attackers to access sensitive information (C:P) via specially crafted data: and view-source: URIs, requiring low attack complexity and no authentication. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, and with no public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of its potential impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
38.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
38.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
6.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0606 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

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 (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:38.5.0-2.el6_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:38.5.0-2.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:38.5.0-1.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:38.5.0-1.el7_2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:38.5.0-1.el6_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:38.5.0-3.el7_2
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-7214Important

Mozilla: Cross-site reading attack through data: and view-source: URIs (MFSA 2015-149)

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/2015-12/msg00021.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00022.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00023.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00038.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00049.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
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2657.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201512-10
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3422
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3432
mozilla.org / security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-149.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
securityfocus.com / bid/79279
securitytracker.com / id/1034426
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2833-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2859-1