CVE-2015-7196: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4, when a Java plugin is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect garbage collection and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Java applet that deallocates an in-use JavaScript wrapper.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 41.0.2; version 38.0 only; version 38.0.1 only; version 38.0.5 only; version 38.1.0 only; version 38.1.1 only; …

Published 2015-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.