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GET /api/vulnerabilities/63271?format=api
{ "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/63271?format=api", "vulnerability_id": "VCID-xbv2-t3r6-y3f9", "summary": "Mozilla developers and community members Calixte Denizet, Christian Holler, Alex Gaynor, Yoshi Huang, Bob Clary, Nils Ohlmeier, Jason Kratzer, Jesse Ruderman, Philipp, Mike Taylor, Marcia Knous, Paul Adenot, Randell Jesup, JW Wang, Tyson Smith, Emilio Cobos Álvarez, Ted Campbell, Stephen Fewer, Tristan Bourvon, and Jet Villegas reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 57. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.", "aliases": [ { "alias": "CVE-2018-5090" } ], "fixed_packages": [ { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/582518?format=api", "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/firefox@58.0-1?distro=sid", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:deb/debian/firefox@58.0-1%3Fdistro=sid" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/582059?format=api", "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/firefox@149.0-1?distro=sid", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:deb/debian/firefox@149.0-1%3Fdistro=sid" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/1059611?format=api", "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/firefox@149.0.2-1?distro=sid", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:deb/debian/firefox@149.0.2-1%3Fdistro=sid" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/1076056?format=api", "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/firefox@150.0-1?distro=sid", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:deb/debian/firefox@150.0-1%3Fdistro=sid" } ], "affected_packages": [], "references": [ { "reference_url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-5090", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "0.02026", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.8384", "published_at": "2026-04-24T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.02026", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.83714", "published_at": "2026-04-01T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.02026", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.8378", "published_at": "2026-04-13T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.02026", "scoring_system": "epss", 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"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/", "reference_id": "USN-3544-1", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/" } ], "weaknesses": [ { "cwe_id": 119, "name": "Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer", "description": "The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer." } ], "exploits": [], "severity_range_score": "9.0 - 10.0", "exploitability": null, "weighted_severity": null, "risk_score": null, "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-xbv2-t3r6-y3f9" }