$ cve CVE-2001-1490 JSON

CVE-2001-1490 EXPLOIT

5.0

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 6.4% (pctl 93)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Mozilla 0.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and memory leak) via a web page with a large number of images.

CVSS	5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS	6.35% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2001-12-31
Last modified	2026-06-16

Vendor	Product
mozilla	mozilla

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 / Mozilla 0.9.6 / Opera 5.1 - Image Count Denial of Service	2001-12-11