CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1839

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2009-06-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-06-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with a file: URL loaded through the location bar, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document, aka a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 3.0.10) • mozilla firefox 3.0 • mozilla firefox 3.0.1 • mozilla firefox 3.0.2 • mozilla firefox 3.0.3 • mozilla firefox 3.0.4 • mozilla firefox 3.0.5 • mozilla firefox 3.0.6 • mozilla firefox 3.0.7 • mozilla firefox 3.0.8 • mozilla firefox 3.0.9 • mozilla firefox 3.0beta5 • mozilla firefox 3.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References