CVE-2016-2815 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities within the browser engine of Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 47.0, also impacting products from Canonical, Novell, and openSUSE. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), these flaws could be exploited remotely with low complexity, requiring user interaction, to cause a denial of service through memory corruption and application crashes, or potentially lead to arbitrary code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability garnered some community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure, indicating a degree of awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 45.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:*:*:* | ||
15.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.