ID CVE-2009-1828
Summary Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, application hang, and memory consumption) via a KEYGEN element in conjunction with (1) a META element specifying automatic page refresh or (2) a JavaScript onLoad event handler for a BODY element. NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 5.0 (as of 10-10-2018 - 19:38)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE CWE-399
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
NETWORK LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
NONE NONE PARTIAL
cvss-vector via4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
oval via4
accepted 2014-03-17T04:00:23.083-04:00
class vulnerability
contributors
  • name Chandan S
    organization SecPod Technologies
  • name Sergey Artykhov
    organization ALTX-SOFT
  • name Sergey Artykhov
    organization ALTX-SOFT
  • name Maria Mikhno
    organization ALTX-SOFT
definition_extensions
comment Mozilla Firefox Mainline release is installed
oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22259
description Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, application hang, and memory consumption) via a KEYGEN element in conjunction with (1) a META element specifying automatic page refresh or (2) a JavaScript onLoad event handler for a BODY element. NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected.
family windows
id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5928
status accepted
submitted 2009-09-23T09:45:11
title Mozilla Firefox 'keygen' HTML Tag Denial of Service Vulnerability
version 21
refmap via4
bid 35132
bugtraq
  • 20090528 [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)
  • 20090908 Re: DoS vulnerability in Google Chrome
exploit-db 8822
fulldisc
  • 20090527 [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)
  • 20090528 Re: [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)
misc
xf firefox-keygen-dos(50838)
Last major update 10-10-2018 - 19:38
Published 29-05-2009 - 20:30
Last modified 10-10-2018 - 19:38
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