CVE-2015-0828Double free vulnerability in the nsXMLHttpRequest::GetResponse function in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, when a nonstandard memory…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Double free vulnerability in the nsXMLHttpRequest::GetResponse function in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, when a nonstandard memory allocator is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via crafted JavaScript code that makes an XMLHttpRequest call with zero bytes of data.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.6% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030667 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 72744 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201504-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0404 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1031791 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-18.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0570 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988675 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0841 (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)
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