CVE-2015-4473

critical
Published 2015-08-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182711

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178890

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1146213

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-79.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4473.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"39.0.3"}
mozillafirefox38.0
mozillafirefox38.0.1
mozillafirefox38.0.5
mozillafirefox38.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.