Potential DoS through abuse of rate limit in libunity-webapps for Firefox
Published Apr 7, 2021
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.27%
Description
The unity-firefox-extension package could be tricked into dropping a C callback which was still in use, which Firefox would then free, causing Firefox to crash. This could be achieved by adding an action to the launcher and updating it with new callbacks until the libunity-webapps rate limit was hit. Fixed in 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 of unity-firefox-extension and in all versions of libunity-webapps by shipping an empty unity-firefox-extension package, thus disabling the extension entirely and invalidating the attack against the libunity-webapps package.
Affected products
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- Version 2.5.0StatusaffectedConstraints<2.5.0~+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1
- Version
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- Version 3.0.0StatusaffectedConstraints<3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | Libunity-Webapps | n/a |
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| Canonical | Unity-Firefox-Extension | n/a |
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Configuration 1
- < 3.0.0\+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1
Configuration 2
- 14.04
- 15.04
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.
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 (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.27% (0.01275) | 68.92th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.27% (0.01275) | 66.01th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.08% (0.00081) | 21.37th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.11% (0.00112) | 46.14th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 22, 2023 | 0.11% (0.00112) | 44.30th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 12, 2023 | 0.10% (0.00105) | 42.50th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.09% (0.00087) | 34.98th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 27.89th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 10, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 26.24th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 24.24th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 10.50th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (2)
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1175691 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUExploitVendor Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUVendor Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://launchpad.net/bugs/1175691 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUExploitVendor Advisory | |
| https://ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUVendor Advisory |
Change history (0)
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