CVE-2009-1044
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 6.5%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the _moveToEdgeShift XUL tree method, which triggers garbage collection on objects that are still in use, as demonstrated by Nils during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 6.5% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1045)
- Published
- March 23, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1045 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / windows 7
- mozilla / firefox
References
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941
- http://cansecwest.com/index.html
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2009/02/25/pwn2own-2009
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2009/03/18/pwn2own-2009-day-1---safari-internet-explorer-and-firefox-taken-down-by-four-zero-day-exploits
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00008.html
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10199652-83.html
- http://osvdb.org/52896
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34471(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34505(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34510(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34511(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34521(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34527(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34549(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34550(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34792(Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-113.htm
- http://twitter.com/tippingpoint1/status/1351635812
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1756
- http://www.h-online.com/security/Pwn2Own-2009-Safari-IE-8-and-Firefox-exploited--/news/112889
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:084
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-13.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0397.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0398.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502303/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34181(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021878
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-745-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0864(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-015
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484320(Patch)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11368
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01023.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01040.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01077.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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