CVE-2008-5052
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 3.4%EU EUVD
The AppendAttributeValue function in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated by e4x/extensions/regress-410192.js.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 3.4% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5031)
- Published
- November 13, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5031 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-52.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021183(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454113(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9449(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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