CVE-2015-4508

Mozilla Firefox before 41.0, when reader mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to spoof the relationship between address-bar URLs and web content via a crafted web site.

Published: 2015-09-24 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-4508 is rated Low Risk (35.5/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.70%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-4508

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 2026-01-01 0.58% 0.70% +0.12%
2 2025-06-19 0.91% 0.58% -0.33%
3 2025-04-21 0.91%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-4508

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.6 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
4.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-4508

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-4508

vendor priority summary link
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4508
suse medium https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4508/
ubuntu low CVE-2015-4508 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (firefox), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid): released 4. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4508

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-4508

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla firefox <= 40.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-4508

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