CVE-2015-4516

CriticalCVSS 9.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 9.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-254

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Sep 24, 2015
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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