CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0356

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2009-02-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-02-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 3.0.5) • mozilla firefox 0.1 • mozilla firefox 0.2 • mozilla firefox 0.3 • mozilla firefox 0.4 • mozilla firefox 0.5 • mozilla firefox 0.6 • mozilla firefox 0.6.1 • mozilla firefox 0.7 • mozilla firefox 0.7.1 • mozilla firefox 0.8 • mozilla firefox 0.9 • mozilla firefox 0.9.1 • mozilla firefox 0.9.2 • mozilla firefox 0.9.3 • mozilla firefox 0.9 rc • mozilla firefox 0.10 • mozilla firefox 0.10.1 • mozilla firefox 1.0 • mozilla firefox 1.0.1 • mozilla firefox 1.0.2 • mozilla firefox 1.0.3 • mozilla firefox 1.0.4 • mozilla firefox 1.0.5 • mozilla firefox 1.0.6 • mozilla firefox 1.0.7 • mozilla firefox 1.0.8 • mozilla firefox 1.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.8 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.9 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.10 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.11 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.12 • mozilla firefox 1.5.1 • mozilla firefox 1.5.2 • mozilla firefox 1.5.3 • mozilla firefox 1.5.4 • mozilla firefox 1.5.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.6 • mozilla firefox 1.5.7 • mozilla firefox 1.5.8 • mozilla firefox 1.8 • mozilla firefox 2.0 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.2 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.3 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.4 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.5 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.6 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.7 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.8 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.9 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.10 … and 21 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References