CVE-2009-1840

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-06-11
Bugzilla:
503582: CVE-2009-1840 Firefox XUL scripts skip some security checks

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not check content policy before loading a script file into a XUL document, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a "web bug" in an e-mail message, or web script or an advertisement in a web page.

Find out more about CVE-2009-1840 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 1.8
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Adjacent Network
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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