CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2015-7182

Traffic Director vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
10.2%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Oracle
Affected product
Traffic Director
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2015-11-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-7182

  • Confirm whether Oracle Traffic Director is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-7182.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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