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Status published
Medium
CVE-2009-1839
Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with...
Vulnerability Description
Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with a file: URL loaded through the location bar, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document, aka a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479943
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503581
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9256
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-30.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35431
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35331
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35468
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35415
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35386
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468
- http://osvdb.org/55163
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0beta5, 3.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 12th, 2009
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.