CVE-2008-5715

Exp

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash). NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected, and that the impact is CPU consumption and application hang in unspecified circumstances perhaps involving other platforms.

Published: 2008-12-24 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-5715 is rated High Exploit Risk (68/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 8.50%, 92th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-5715

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
7554 exploit_db edb 2008-12-23 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5715

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-02-13 7.76% 8.50% +0.74%
2 2025-12-24 8.29% 7.76% -0.53%
3 2025-07-12 — 8.29% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5715

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-5715

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-5715

vendor priority summary link
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5715
ubuntu negligible CVE-2008-5715 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 7 source packages (firefox, firefox-3.0, …), 35 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, upstream): ignored 15, DNE 13, needs-triage 7. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-5715

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2008-5715

  • Red Hat (2009-01-19T00:00:00)

    Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5715

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox 3.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5715

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