RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2009-1838
The garbage-collection implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 sets an element's owner document to null in unspecified circumstances, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via a crafted event handler, related to an incorrect context for this event handler.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.048 (91.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.048 · newest: 0.048 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.3
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1096.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11080 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35536 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35602 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-29.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1125.html (vendor-advisory)