CVE-2009-2953

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-08-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0.10, 3.0.11 (+7)

References

http://websecurity.com.ua/3424/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506006/100/0/threaded
http://websecurity.com.ua/3424/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506006/100/0/threaded

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