CVE-2009-3988

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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

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.00398

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No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence

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Affected Products & Versions

mozilla firefox<= 3.0.17
mozilla firefoxall versions
mozilla seamonkeyall versions

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producthighSQLite Firefox Profile Data DB Access

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published to NVD22 Feb 2010 · 01:00 PM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10218-1
rhsaRHSA-2010:0112Low
usnUSN-896-1
usnUSN-895-1

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References & Sources

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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/37242

http://secunia.com/advisories/38847

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http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1999

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:042

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-04.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-895-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-896-1

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0405

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504862

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56362

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8355

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9384

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