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CVE-2015-4478

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-4478 describes a Same Origin Policy bypass vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2. This flaw arises from insufficient enforcement of ECMAScript 6 requirements on JavaScript object properties, specifically through the reviver parameter of the JSON.parse method. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, potentially leading to information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0337 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:38.2.0-4.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:38.2.0-4.el6_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:38.2.0-4.el7_1
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-4478Moderate

Mozilla: Redefinition of non-configurable JavaScript object properties (MFSA 2015-82)

Aug 11, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201605-06
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3333
mozilla.org / security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-82.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
securitytracker.com / id/1033247
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2702-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2702-2
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2702-3