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CVE-2008-5501
The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.1%
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- redhat
Description
The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors that trigger an assertion failure.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (19)
- 32882 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 33421 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:1036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0977 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395623 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:245 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- USN-690-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 33203 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10257 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 33216 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 256408 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:1037 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:0002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 33188 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- mozilla-layout-code-execution-var4(47407) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1021417 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 33189 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 34501 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
- 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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