CVE-2015-4508 (GCVE-0-2015-4508)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-24 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
10 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-4 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfs… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-3 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76815 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-2 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195976 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2015-09-22 00:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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