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CVE-2011-3659

Status: ModifiedHigh (9.3)—💥 Exploit

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to incorrect AttributeChildRemoved notifications that affect access to removed nsDOMAttribute child nodes.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Affected technologies (7)

Mozilla — FirefoxMozilla — SeamonkeyMozilla — ThunderbirdOpensuse — OpensuseSuse — Linux Enterprise DesktopSuse — Linux Enterprise ServerSuse — Linux Enterprise Software Development KIT

CWEs

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