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CVE-2009-0775
Double free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 allows remote…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 4.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Double free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "cloned XUL DOM elements which were linked as a parent and child," which are not properly handled during garbage collection.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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)
- 4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (10 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
27
- RHSA-2009:0315 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2009:012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0632 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1021796 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9681 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5806 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- DSA-1751 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:0325 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7584 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:0258 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 34140 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 34272 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 34417 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-08.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 34145 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-2882 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474456 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-2884 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 34137 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-069.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6207 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 34324 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:075 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 33990 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5816 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 34383 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/japple/css/japple?temp.documentID=366362&temp.productID=154235&temp.releaseID=361845&temp.bucketID=126655&PAGE=Document (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2009-0775 (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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