CVE-2009-2654

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-07-24
Bugzilla:
521311: CVE-2009-2654 firefox: URL bar spoofing vulnerability

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.13, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, via a crafted web page that calls window.open with an invalid character in the URL, makes document.write calls to the resulting object, and then calls the stop method during the loading of the error page.

Find out more about CVE-2009-2654 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-2009:1432 2009-09-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2009:1430 2009-09-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2009:1431 2009-09-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHSA-2009:1430 2009-09-09

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