PT-2009-4304 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Adam Barth + 1 · Published 2009-06-11 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2009-1839

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.11

Description: The issue allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document. This is achieved through a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack, where an incorrect principal is associated with a file: URL loaded through the location bar.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 3.0.11, update to version 3.0.11 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1839

DSA-1820-1

RHSA-2009:1095

RHSA-2009_1095

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

References · 55

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/10544 · Exploit
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35431 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1839 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/35326 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35331 · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-30.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489041 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35415 · Note