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CVE-2009-3988

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
22/02/2010
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly restrict read access to object properties in showModalDialog, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted dialogArguments values.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.0.17 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools