CVE-2009-1839
N/A
Published: June 12, 2009 at 09:07 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:08 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFirefox
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (18)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/35331Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/35431Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
Source: [email protected]
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
Source: [email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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