Back
CVE-2009-3072
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, Thunderbird before…
High10.0EPSS 5.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.24, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.19 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the BinHex decoder in netwerk/streamconv/converters/nsBinHexDecoder.cpp, and unknown vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.3% · top 7.4% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
Loading the EPSS history…
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (26)
- DSA-1885 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 36343 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 39001 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2009:048 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1430 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0648 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0650 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 36692 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501900 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 36670 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 36671 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-47.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 38977 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 36669 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0154 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508074 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1432 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494283 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 37098 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-915-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10349 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6315 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-07.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1431 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2009-3072)Record last updated .