Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-3836
feedWriter in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 allows remote attackers to execute scripts with chrome privileges via vectors related to feed preview and the (1) elem.doCommand, (2) elem.dispatchEvent, (3) _setTitleText, (4) _setTitleImage, and (5) _initSubscriptionUI functions.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.025 (84.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- slackware.com/security/viewer.php (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45350 (vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32144 (third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 (vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346 (vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)