Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2009-1840

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not check content policy before loading a script file into a XUL document, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a "web bug" in an e-mail message, or web script or an advertisement in a web page.

EPSS: 0.022 (80.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
Mozilla Seamonkey
Mozilla Thunderbird
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

secalert@redhat.com (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)