CVE-2009-2408
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, Firefox before 3.0.13, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.23, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.18 do not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the
02 Description
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, Firefox before 3.0.13, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.23, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.18 do not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.74% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-07-30 19:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 05:52Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-07-09
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295Improper Certificate ValidationBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4ea1f0708a1f6408721cbe88812d36435dc25ef3bc2626126d6f4b3750c5bfa5
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com36139http://secunia.com/advisories/36139
- secunia.com36157http://secunia.com/advisories/36157
- www.securitytracker.com1022632http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022632
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:197http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:197
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2009:048http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:216http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2009:018http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
- secunia.com36434http://secunia.com/advisories/36434
- secunia.com36088http://secunia.com/advisories/36088
- isc.sans.orghttp://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7003
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2009:1207http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1207.html
- www.wired.comhttp://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/
- secunia.com36669http://secunia.com/advisories/36669
- osvdb.org56723http://osvdb.org/56723
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2009:1432http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-810-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-810-1
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10751https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10751
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-810-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/810-2/
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:8458https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8458
- sunsolve.sun.com1021030http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021030.1-1
- www.openldap.orghttp://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/libraries/libldap/tls_m.c.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.11&f=h
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-3184http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
- secunia.com36125http://secunia.com/advisories/36125
- secunia.com37098http://secunia.com/advisories/37098
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510251
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-2085http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085
- www.debian.orgDSA-1874http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:217http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:217
- marc.info[oss-security] 20090903 More CVE-2009-2408 like issueshttp://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- nss Fixed in 3.12.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- nss Fixed in 3.12.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- nss Fixed in 3.12.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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