RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2009-1571
Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTML parser in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, Thunderbird before 3.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified method calls that attempt to access freed objects in low-memory situations.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.065 (93.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.064 · newest: 0.065 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.13
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0.9, 1.1.1, 1.1.12
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036097.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036132.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37242 (third-party-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/38770 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/38772 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/38847 (third-party-advisory)