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CVE-2009-0356

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-59 Link Following
Publication date:
04/02/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582.

Impact

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

Base Score: 5.10 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
5.10
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.0.5 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9:rc:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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