CVE-2015-0802

Exp

Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 relies on docshell type information instead of page principal information for Window.webidl access control, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via certain content navigation that leverages the reachability of a privileged window with an unintended persistence of access to restricted internal methods.

Published: 2015-04-01 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-0802 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 67.27%, 99th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-0802

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
37958 exploit_db edb 2015-08-24 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-0802

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-07-13 67.47% 67.27% -0.20%
2 2026-06-15 80.39% 67.47% -12.92%
3 2025-08-23 — 80.39% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-0802

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-0802

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-0802

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2015-0802: 1 GLSA(s) (201512-10), 4 atom(s) (mail-client/thunderbird, mail-client/thunderbird-bin, www-client/firefox, www-client/firefox-bin); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2015-0802
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0802
suse medium CVE-2015-0802 severity moderate: SUSE including 54 source package names (MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-102.11.0-150200.152.87.1, …), 76 product×package rows across 24 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, … (24 product lines)): Fixed 58, Known Not Affected 18. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0802/
ubuntu low CVE-2015-0802 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (firefox), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): released 4, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0802

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-0802

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
opensuse opensuse 13.1 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 13.2 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox <= 36.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-0802

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