RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2009-3986
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges by leveraging a reference to a chrome window from a content window, related to the window.opener property.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.6 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.037 (89.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/37704 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8489 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/37699 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11568 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3547 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37881 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01034.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37785 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-70.html (Vendor Advisory)