CVE-2009-1840
Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Description
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.
INFO
Published Date :
June 12, 2009, 9:30 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
8.6
Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2009-1840
vulnerability.
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are
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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to
CVE-2009-1840.
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The following list is the news that have been mention
CVE-2009-1840 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2009-1840 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://osvdb.org/55158 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35331 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35415 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35431 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35439 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35440 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35468 Added Reference http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468 Added Reference http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:141 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-31.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022379 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477979 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503582 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51076 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9448 Added Reference https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9448 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9448 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 17, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51076 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51076 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jun. 15, 2009
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2009-1840 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2009-1840
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
1.39 }} -1.12%
score
0.78582
percentile