Description
Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 allows remote attackers to bypass certain ECMAScript 5 (aka ES5) API protection mechanisms and modify immutable properties, and consequently execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges, via a crafted web page that does not use ES5 APIs.
Published: 2015-09-24
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-4536 Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 allows remote attackers to bypass certain ECMAScript 5 (aka ES5) API protection mechanisms and modify immutable properties, and consequently execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges, via a crafted web page that does not use ES5 APIs.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2743-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:18:11.529Z

Reserved: 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-4516

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-09-24T04:59:16.270

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-4516

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-4516 - Bugzilla

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