CVE-2001-1490 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla 0.9.6. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a web page with an excessive number of images, leading to high CPU consumption and a memory leak on the victim's system. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity and results in partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:0.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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