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CVE-2001-1490

30
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:0.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21181 · Dec 11, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0635 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/7709
securityfocus.com / archive/1/245152
securityfocus.com / bid/3684
Exploit