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CVE-2004-0902

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0902 describes multiple heap-based buffer overflows affecting Mozilla Firefox (before Preview Release), Mozilla (before 1.7.3), and Thunderbird (before 0.8). These vulnerabilities could be triggered remotely through "Send page" functionality, malicious POP3 server responses, or non-ASCII hostnames in links. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this critical flaw allows for a denial of service or arbitrary code execution with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No), and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:1.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1014 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0902Important

security flaw

Sep 4, 2004

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
marc.info
marc.info
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17378
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17379
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11201
mozilla.org / projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA04-261A.html
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource