CVE-2011-2988: mozilla firefox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2011-2988 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 5.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 10, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3Timeline
- 18-08-2011PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Buffer overflow in an unspecified string class in the WebGL shader implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 5, Thunderbird before 6, SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long source-code block for a shader.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
5.64%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
93%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.15 pp
From 5.49% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Mozilla3 products
- firefox4.0 | 4.0:beta1 | 4.0:beta10 | 4.0:beta11 | 4.0:beta12 | 4.0:beta2 | 4.0:beta3 | 4.0:beta4 | 4.0:beta5 | 4.0:beta6 | 4.0:beta7 | 4.0:beta8 | 4.0:beta9 | 4.0.1 | 5.0
- seamonkey2.0 | 2.0:alpha_1 | 2.0:alpha_2 | 2.0:alpha_3 | 2.0:beta_1 | 2.0:beta_2 | 2.0:rc1 | 2.0:rc2 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.0.6 | 2.0.7 | 2.0.8 | 2.0.9 | 2.0.10 | 2.0.11 | 2.0.12 | 2.0.13 | 2.0.14 | 2.1 | 2.1:alpha1 | 2.1:alpha2 | 2.1:alpha3 | 2.1:beta1 | 2.1:beta2 | 2.1:beta3 | 2.1:rc1 | 2.1:rc2 | 2.2 | 2.2:beta1 | 2.2:beta2 | 2.2:beta3
- thunderbird≤ 5.0
1 vendor · 3 products
References
8 links- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-31.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14270VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665936X Refsource CONFIRM