CVE-2009-0356
published 2009-02-04CVE-2009-0356: 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…
PriorityP427medium5.1CVSS 2.0
AVNACHAuNCPIPAP
EPSS
3.23%
87.0th percentile
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
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CVSS provenance
nvdv2.05.1MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
vendor_redhat4.3MEDIUM
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GHSA
GHSA-95pc-m84q-vvmm: Mozilla Firefox before 3
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-02·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2009-0356 [MEDIUM] CWE-59 GHSA-95pc-m84q-vvmm: Mozilla Firefox before 3
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.
Red Hat
Firefox Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files
vendor_redhat·2009-02-03·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2009-0356 [MEDIUM] Firefox Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files
Firefox Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files
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.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
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2009-02-04
Published