Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-7182

Title: Oracle Opensso RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-7182.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Nov 05, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

11.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-7182: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ASN.1 decoder in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted OCTET STRING data.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00037.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00049.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134268/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-nss-Updates.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1980.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1981.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3393 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3410 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-133.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77416 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2015&m=slackware-security.399753 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2791-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2819-1 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa119 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202868 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.2.1_release_notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.4_release_notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.20.1_release_notes https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00037.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00049.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134268/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-nss-Updates.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1980.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1981.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3393 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3410 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-133.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77416 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2015&m=slackware-security.399753 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2785-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2791-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2819-1 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa119 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202868 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.2.1_release_notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.4_release_notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.20.1_release_notes https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-7182 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 05, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.