CVE-2015-4509

critical

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLVideoElement interface in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript code that modifies the URI table of a media element, aka ZDI-CAN-3176.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-4529

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198435

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-646

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2754-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-4

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-3

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76816

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-106.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3365

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1852.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1834.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00007.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00003.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-09-24

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04937