CVE-2015-7202

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 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-2015-7202 is rated High Risk (69.4/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.91%). Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-7202

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 2025-07-03 1.42% 1.91% +0.50%
2 2025-07-02 3.24% 1.42% -1.83%
3 2025-03-30 3.24%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-7202

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-2015-7202

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-7202

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2015-7202: 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-2015-7202
redhat critical https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7202
suse critical CVE-2015-7202 severity critical: SUSE including 69 source package names (MozillaFirefox-102.11.0-150200.152.87.1, MozillaFirefox-115.10.0-150200.152.134.1, …), 117 product×package rows across 47 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4, … (47 product lines)): Fixed 117. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7202/
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-7202 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (firefox), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily): released 5. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7202

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-7202

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 22 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 23 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-7202

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-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://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-134.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79279
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188105
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193757
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193999
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194002
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194006
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197012
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200580
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207571
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208059
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212305
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1219330
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221421
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221904
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
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