CVE-2015-7201

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Published: 2015-12-16 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-7201 is rated High Risk (76.8/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.02%, 92th percentile). Core evidence: EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. EPSS rose +4.44% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-7201

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 2026-06-15 1.57% 6.02% +4.44%
2 2026-01-18 1.91% 1.57% -0.34%
3 2025-07-03 1.91%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-7201

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 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:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-7201

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-7201

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2015-7201: 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-2015-7201
redhat critical https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7201
suse critical CVE-2015-7201 severity critical: SUSE including 105 source package names (MozillaFirefox-102.11.0-150200.152.87.1, MozillaFirefox-115.10.0-150200.152.134.1, …), 156 product×package rows across 53 product lines (SUSE Liberty Linux 7, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, … (53 product lines)): Fixed 156. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7201/
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-7201 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (firefox, thunderbird), 10 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily): released 10. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7201

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-7201

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
fedoraproject fedora 22 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 23 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox <= 42.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse leap 42.1 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 13.1 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 13.2 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla firefox 38.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-7201

URL Tags
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00038.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00049.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2657.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3422
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3432
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-134.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79279
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2859-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203135
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1224100
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225250
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
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