RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2009-3077
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, does not properly manage pointers for the columns (aka TreeColumns) of a XUL tree element, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability."
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: 0.046 (91.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.046 · newest: 0.046 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1885 (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/36343 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/39001 (third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10730 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5606 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/36692 (third-party-advisory)