CVE-2004-0902
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 10.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) the "Send page" functionality, (2) certain responses from a malicious POP3 server, or (3) a link containing a non-ASCII hostname.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.1% · top 4.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11201 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2004:036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FLSA:2089 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- mozilla-nspop3protocol-bo(17379) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256316 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245066 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226669 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258005 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- mozilla-netscape-nonascii-bo(17378) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200409-26 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- TA04-261A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- SSRT4826 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-0900 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2004-0902)Record last updated .