CVE-2009-1839

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-06-11
Bugzilla:
503581: CVE-2009-1839 Firefox information disclosure flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with a file: URL loaded through the location bar, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document, aka a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack.

Find out more about CVE-2009-1839 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 1.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2009:1095 2009-06-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2009:1095 2009-06-11

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