Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code with a…

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash). NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected, and that the impact is CPU consumption and application hang in unspecified circumstances perhaps involving other platforms.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

8.5% · top 4.9% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 4807 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3424/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20090821 DoS vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 32988 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 51032 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 7554 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• firefox-locationhash-dos(47572) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 11:04 UTC.