CVE-2009-1306

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-04-21
Bugzilla:
496262: CVE-2009-1306 Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The jar: URI implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey does not follow the Content-Disposition header of the inner URI, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and possibly other attacks via an uploaded .jar file with a "Content-Disposition: attachment" designation.

Find out more about CVE-2009-1306 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2009:0437 2009-04-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2009:1125 2009-06-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2009:0436 2009-04-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2009:0437 2009-04-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2009:1126 2009-06-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2009:0436 2009-04-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2009:1126 2009-06-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2009:0437 2009-04-21

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