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medium 5.0

CVE-2008-7244 json

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) by calling the window.print function…

published 2009-09-18 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-7202

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.5%
EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) by calling the window.print function in a loop, aka a "printing DoS attack," possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-0821.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-7244 updated

Firefox: DoS (hang) via "printing DoS attack"

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-12509)

Exploit prediction

4.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-12509 Multiple Browsers - 'window.print()' Denial of Service dos, 2010-05-04
  • websecurity.com.ua http://websecurity.com.ua/2456/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.