PT-2009-3839 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+3

Gregory Fleischer · Published 2009-04-21 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2009-1307

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.9 Thunderbird (affected versions not specified) SeaMonkey (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the view-source: URI implementation, which fails to properly enforce the Same Origin Policy. This allows remote attackers to bypass certain restrictions, including crossdomain.xml restrictions, and connect to arbitrary web sites via a Flash file. Attackers can also read, create, or modify Local Shared Objects via a Flash file, or bypass unspecified restrictions to render content using vectors involving a jar: URI.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.9, update to version 3.0.9 or later to resolve the issue. For Thunderbird, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability. For SeaMonkey, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1307

DSA-1797-1

DSA-1830-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2009:0436

RHSA-2009:0437

RHSA-2009:1125

RHSA-2009:1126

RHSA-2009_0436

RHSA-2009_0437

RHSA-2009_1125

RHSA-2009_1126

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Thunderbird

References · 2146

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00504.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.425408 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-17.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:141 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1308 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:111 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1307 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-782-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/764-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00444.html · Vendor Advisory