{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-2478 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2478 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2009-2478 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 16 Jul 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2009-2478 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2009-2478 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 16 Jul 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-2478 exists.\n\nAffected product: Mozilla Firefox. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2478/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2478/index.md)","id":"CVE-2009-2478","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2478/index.md","name":"CVE-2009-2478","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-j8jf-vmrq-6wf6"],"analysis":{"component_type":"browser","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Mozilla Firefox","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can crash Mozilla Firefox via a null pointer dereference, requiring user interaction to trigger the vulnerability.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"firefox","vendor":"mozilla"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-189","name":null}],"description":"Mozilla Firefox 3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to a \"flash bug.\"","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":2,"first_seen":"2009-07-13","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2009-07-13","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"9137","stars":null,"title":"Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - Font tags Remote Buffer Overflow"},{"date":"2009-07-17","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"9181","stars":null,"title":"Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - 'Font tags' Remote HeapSpray (1)"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-2478","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"mozilla:firefox","products":["mozilla:firefox"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2009"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-2479"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-2477"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2009-07-16","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape","id":"CVE-2019-11708","kev_date_added":"2022-05-23","published":"2019-07-23"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2010-3765","kev_date_added":"2025-10-06","published":"2010-10-27"},{"cvss_score":9.6,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2022-26486","kev_date_added":"2022-03-07","published":"2022-12-22"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2022-26485","kev_date_added":"2022-03-07","published":"2022-12-22"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion","id":"CVE-2019-11707","kev_date_added":"2022-05-23","published":"2019-07-23"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox And Thunderbird Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2020-6819","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-04-24"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox And Thunderbird Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2020-6820","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-04-24"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can crash Mozilla Firefox via a null pointer dereference, requiring user interaction to trigger the vulnerability.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2478/"}