CVE-2011-2996

critical

Published 2011-09-29 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the plugin API in Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mozilla	firefox	`3.6`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.2`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.3`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.4`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.6`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.7`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.8`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.9`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.10`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.11`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.12`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.13`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.14`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.15`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.16`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.17`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.18`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.19`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.20`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.21`
mozilla	firefox	`3.6.22`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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