Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2009-3376
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0, does not properly handle a right-to-left override (aka RLO or U+202E) Unicode character in a download filename, which allows remote attackers to spoof file extensions via a crafted filename, as demonstrated by displaying a non-executable extension for an executable file.
EPSS: 0.032 (86.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)