CVE-2009-3986

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-12-15
Bugzilla:
546724: CVE-2009-3986 Mozilla Chrome privilege escalation via window.opener

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges by leveraging a reference to a chrome window from a content window, related to the window.opener property.

Find out more about CVE-2009-3986 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2009:1674 2009-12-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2009:1674 2009-12-16

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