CVE-2015-4495
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8 · CWE-346 · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
8.8CVSS HIGH ● exploited
🔴 Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2022-05-25. US federal agencies must patch by 2022-06-15.
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)72%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (3)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-78.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00009.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00010.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1581.htmlAdvisory