Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2009-2471
The setTimeout function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 does not properly preserve object wrapping, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via a crafted call, related to XPCNativeWrapper.
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: 0.037 (89.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
References
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-39.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01032.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/36145 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35944 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/36005 (third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory)