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CVE-2008-2799
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 and earlier, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 5.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 and earlier, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the JavaScript engine.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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)
- 5.6% · top 7.1% 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: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
55
- SUSE-SA:2008:034 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380833 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0549 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-1697 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 31021 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30898 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31403 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0216 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2646 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 30949 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SSA:2008-191-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- 31069 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31008 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31377 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356378 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0616 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1993 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31023 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:155 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 30038 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 30915 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1607 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-200808-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 31005 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 33433 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-6127 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 1020419 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 31253 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-6737 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 31183 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30903 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0547 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-6193 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-629-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431409 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SSA:2008-191 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- SSA:2008-210-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418128 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1615 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-6706 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 31220 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31195 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10743 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 31076 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-619-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 30911 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0569 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-21.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 30878 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1621 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20080708 rPSA-2008-0216-1 firefox (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 31286 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-6196 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:136 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_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-2008-2792 (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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