CVE-2008-5715: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash). NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected, and that the impact is CPU consumption and application hang in unspecified circumstances perhaps involving other platforms.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 3.0.5 only

Published 2008-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.