HIGH
Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by creating JavaScript web-workers recursively
Published Oct 29, 2009
10.0
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 7.17%
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by creating JavaScript web-workers recursively.
Affected products
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
10.0 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
7.17% 0.07173
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.07173
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 7.17% (0.07173) | 94.10th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 7.17% (0.07173) | 93.46th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 3.18% (0.03183) | 85.81th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 6.61% (0.06606) | 84.88th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 22, 2025 | 3.18% (0.03183) | 85.90th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 4.83% (0.04828) | 88.78th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 50.64% (0.50645) | 97.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 11, 2024 | 53.22% (0.53220) | 97.69th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 1, 2024 | 50.08% (0.50078) | 97.25th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 1, 2023 | 53.90% (0.53898) | 97.24th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 61.23% (0.61233) | 97.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 5.14% (0.05139) | 89.65th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 5.14% (0.05139) | 88.62th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 5.14% (0.05139) | 75.16th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (6)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-54.html x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514554 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6464 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT | |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA | |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-54.html | x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch | |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN | |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514554 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6464 | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 29, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Sep 24, 2009
Link CVE-2009-3371
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a