CVE-2009-2465
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 5.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors involving double frame construction, related to (1) nsHTMLContentSink.cpp, (2) nsXMLContentSink.cpp, and (3) nsPresShell.cpp, and the nsSubDocumentFrame::Reflow function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 7 days later
· 7 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)
- 5.4% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (11 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
18
- 265068 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 1020800 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482578 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-7961 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 36145 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35944 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35943 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2009:039 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1162 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-34.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10402 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 35758 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2152 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 36005 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2009:042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 35914 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1972 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489050 (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-2009-2460 (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-2009-2465)Record last updated .