PT-2009-3293 · Mozilla+1 · Thunderbird+3

Bjoern Hoehrmann + 1 · Published 2009-02-20 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2009-0652

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.9 Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.21 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.15

Description The issue allows remote attackers to spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks by using box-drawing characters not included in the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) blacklist. This can be demonstrated by homoglyphs of the / (slash) and ? (question mark) characters in a subdomain of a .cn domain name.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.9, update to version 3.0.9 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.21, update to version 2.0.0.21 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.15, update to version 1.1.15 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-0652

DSA-1797-1

DSA-1830-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2009:0436

RHSA-2009:0437

RHSA-2009_0436

RHSA-2009_0437

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Thunderbird

References · 2107

• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:111 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0652 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34843 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/764-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1125 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1797 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0436.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00683.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34894 · Vendor Advisory