CVE-2009-2043 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.2 through 3.0.10, specifically within the nsViewManager.cpp component, triggered by interactions with TinyMCE. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with medium attack complexity to cause an application crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, a proof-of-concept exploit exists on ExploitDB, and the CVE has minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.