CVE-2009-3986 — Code Injection in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-94 — Code Injection10 documents6 sources
Severity
7.6HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.0%
top 16.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Seamonkey
Timeline
PublishedDec 17
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges by leveraging a reference to a chrome window from a content window, related to the window.opener property.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 4.9 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox3.0.15+98
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey2.0+35

Patches

Patch: securitytracker.com ↗Patch: securitytracker.com ↗Patch: www.vupen.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-hm3p-p79c-ph3c: Mozilla Firefox before 3↗2022-05-02
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CVEList
CVE-2009-3986: Mozilla Firefox before 3↗2009-12-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 regression↗2010-01-08
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Ubuntu
Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 regression↗2010-01-08
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Ubuntu
Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities↗2009-12-18
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Ubuntu
Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities↗2009-12-18
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Red Hat
Mozilla Chrome privilege escalation via window.opener↗2009-12-15
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2009-3986 Mozilla Chrome privilege escalation via window.opener↗2009-12-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2009-3241 Wireshark: DoS (excessive CPU use) in OPCUA dissector↗2009-09-17
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