CVE-2015-2742

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 39.0 on OS X includes native key press information during the logging of crashes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a crash-reporting data stream.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 38.1.0
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-68.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138669
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-68.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783

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