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CVE-2008-5715

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5715 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 and earlier versions on Windows Vista, where a remote attacker can crash the application or cause a hang through JavaScript manipulating a long location.hash string. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. While no active exploitation is reported and it's not on the KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-7554) exists, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-7554 · Dec 23, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0850 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5715

CVE-2008-5715

References

osvdb.org / 51032
securityreason.com / securityalert/4807
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/47572
exploit-db.com / exploits/7554
websecurity.com.ua / 3424
securityfocus.com / archive/1/506006/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/32988