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CVE-2008-4062

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4062 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey versions prior to their respective updates. These flaws, primarily within the JavaScript engine, could lead to denial of service through memory corruption and application crashes, or potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is critical, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, allowing remote attackers to achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.0.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0, < 3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.1.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.0.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0499 is in the 85th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:2.0.0.17-1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.20.el2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.24.el3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.2-3.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.10-0.10.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-26.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.12-16.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.12-19.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.2-3.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: nss-0:3.12.1.1-1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:1.9.0.2-5.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: yelp-0:2.16.0-21.el5
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mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4062Critical

Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption

Sep 23, 2008

References

download.novell.com / Download
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31984
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31985
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31987
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32007
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32010
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32011
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32012
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32025
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32042
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32044
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32082
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32089
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32092
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32095
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32096
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32144
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32185
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32196
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32845
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33433
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33434
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34501
Third Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45355
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
Third Party Advisory
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
Third Party Advisory
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10206
Third Party Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Broken Link
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01335.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1649
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1669
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1696
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1697
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-42.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/31346
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-645-1
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-645-2
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-647-1
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2661
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0977
Third Party Advisory