CVE-2009-1828: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, application hang, and memory consumption) via a KEYGEN element in conjunction with (1) a META element specifying automatic page refresh or (2) a JavaScript onLoad event handler for a BODY element. NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 3.0.10 only

Published 2009-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.