CVE-2015-7215

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The importScripts function in the Web Workers API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy by triggering use of the no-cors mode in the fetch API to attempt resource access that throws an exception, leading to information disclosure after a rethrow.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Mozilla Firefox: through 42.0
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-140.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79280
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1160890
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/164
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/166

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