CVE-2015-4495 vulnerability in Mozilla and Other Products
Published on August 8, 2015
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Mozilla Firefox Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Moxilla Firefox allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy to read arbitrary files or gain privileges.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 15, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2015-4495 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Origin Validation Error
The software does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid.
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Exploit Probability
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