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CVE-2004-1200
Firefox and Mozilla allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory consumption), as demonstrated using…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Firefox and Mozilla allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory consumption), as demonstrated using Javascript code that continuously creates nested arrays and then sorts the newly created arrays.
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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 20041125 FIREFOX flaws: nested array sort() loop Stack overflow exception (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- web-browser-array-dos(18282) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 11752 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20041125 MSIE & FIREFOX flaws: "detailed" advisory and comments that you probably don't want to read anyway (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 11760 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2004-1197 (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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