CVE-2015-4498
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.5)—
Vulnerabilidad en la funcionalidad de instalación de complemento en Mozilla Firefox en versiones anteriores a 40.0.3 y Firefox ESR 38.x en versiones anteriores a 38.2.1, permite a atacantes remotos eludir un requisito destinado a la confirmación de usuario por la construcción de un dato manipulado: URL y desencadenando la navegación a una URL http: o https: arbitraria en un cierto punto temprano del proceso de instalación.
CVSS
- Versión: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 2.68%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 85
- Fecha de la puntuación: 11/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-254
Referencias
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00000.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1693.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3345
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-95.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76505
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033396
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2723-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042699
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00000.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1693.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3345
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-95.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76505
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033396
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2723-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042699
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