CVE-2009-1828

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.0.10

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0247.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0263.html
http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/advisory-firefox-denial-of-service.html
http://websecurity.com.ua/3194/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503876/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506328/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35132
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469565
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50838
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5928
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8822
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0247.html

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