CVE-2004-0478

Severity

26%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

48%

Unknown versions of Mozilla allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (high CPU/RAM consumption) using Javascript with an infinite loop that continues to add input to a form, possibly as the result of inserting control characters, as demonstrated using an embedded ctrl-U.

Unknown versions of Mozilla allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (high CPU/RAM consumption) using Javascript with an infinite loop that continues to add input to a form, possibly as the result of inserting control characters, as demonstrated using an embedded ctrl-U.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-07-07 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Mozilla

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243540

Vendor Advisory

[Dailydave] 20040514 Mozilla bug might even get fixed!

Vendor Advisory

mozilla-javascript-dos(16225)

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