PT-2009-4305 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+3

Wladimir Palant · Published 2009-06-11 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2009-1840

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.11 Thunderbird (affected versions not specified) SeaMonkey (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by loading a script file into a XUL document without checking content policy. This can be achieved via a crafted HTML document, such as a "web bug" in an e-mail message, or web script, or an advertisement in a web page.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.11, update to version 3.0.11 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.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1840

DSA-1820-1

RHSA-2009:1095

RHSA-2009_1095

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Thunderbird

References · 58

• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-31.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35431 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35440 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35439 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:141 · Vendor Advisory
• 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
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1840 · Security Note
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html · Vendor Advisory