Back
CVE-2015-4497
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanvasRenderingContext2D implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefox ESR 38.x before…
High10.0EPSS 8.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mozilla
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanvasRenderingContext2D implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between resize events and changes to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences for a CANVAS element.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.0% · top 5.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
Loading the EPSS history…
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-94.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3345 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:2081 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2723-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-406 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175278 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1504 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1492 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 76502 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1693 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1164766 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1033397 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2015-4497)Record last updated .