Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2009-3988
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly restrict read access to object properties in showModalDialog, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted dialogArguments values.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (81.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.5, 3.0.13, 3.0.6
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 2.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37242 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/38847 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1999 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-04.html
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html (vendor-advisory)