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Vulnerability details: VCID-er67-933d-ayfk
Vulnerability ID VCID-er67-933d-ayfk
Aliases CVE-2009-2478
Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, NSS, GNU IceCat, and XULRunner, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code or local privilege escalation.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.04071 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
epss 0.04071 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
epss 0.04071 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
epss 0.04071 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
epss 0.04071 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
epss 0.04071 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
epss 0.04071 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
epss 0.04071 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2009-2478.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-2478
511228 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511228
GLSA-201301-01 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01
OSVDB-55932;CVE-2009-2478 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/remote/9181.py
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added July 12, 2009
Description Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - Font tags Remote Buffer Overflow
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date July 13, 2009
Exploit type remote
Platform windows
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.88489
EPSS Score 0.04071
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:06:08.109042+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01 38.0.0