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CVE-2009-2953
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 through 3.0.13, and 3.5.x, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via JavaScript…
Medium5.0EPSS 4.6%
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Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 through 3.0.13, and 3.5.x, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash), a related issue to CVE-2008-5715.
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)
- 4.6% · top 8.3% of all CVEs (5 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
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (2)
- 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
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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