CVE-2015-4495
KEVHIGH 8.8EPSS 68.6%
The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the wild in August 2015.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - EPSS
- 68.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2022-05-25
- Published
- 2015-08-08
- Updated
- 2025-10-21
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/
- vincd/CVE-2015-44951★ · 2015-08-10
Metasploit modules (1)
ExploitDB entries (1)
Security advisories
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-78.html
- https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1581.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76249
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033216
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2707-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178058
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179262