CVE-2015-2714

Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 on Android does not properly restrict writing URL data to the Android logging system, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that has a required permission for reading a log, as demonstrated by the READ_LOGS permission for the mixed-content violation log on Android 4.0 and earlier.

Published: 2015-05-14 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-2714 is rated Low Risk (15.7/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-2714

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 2023-03-07 0.95% 0.06% -0.89%
2 2022-02-04 0.95%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-2714

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-2714

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-2714

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2015-2714: 1 GLSA(s) (201605-06), 6 atom(s) (dev-libs/nspr, dev-libs/nss, 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-2015-2714
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-2714 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (firefox), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid): not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2714

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-2714

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox <= 37.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-2714

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