CVE-2008-2419

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering an error condition during certain Iframe operations between a JSframe write and a JSframe close, as demonstrated by an error in loading an empty Java applet defined by a 'src="javascript:"' sequence.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 2.0.0.14

References

http://www.0x000000.com/?i=576
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29318
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42589
http://www.0x000000.com/?i=576
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29318
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42589

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