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CVE-2009-2469

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2469 describes a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.12. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious SVG document that exploits specific property handling. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 3.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0556 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.12-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.12-1.el5_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:1.9.0.12-1.el5_3
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2469Critical

Mozilla remote code execution using watch and __defineSetter__ on SVG element

Jul 21, 2009

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/35914
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35944
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/36005
secunia.com / advisories/36145
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10030
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01032.html
mozilla.org / security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-37.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/35758
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1972
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2152