Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not check content policy before loading a script file into a XUL document, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a "web bug" in an e-mail message, or web script or an advertisement in a web page.
Published: 2009-06-12
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1820-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1835 Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not check content policy before loading a script file into a XUL document, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a "web bug" in an e-mail message, or web script or an advertisement in a web page.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-779-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
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Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey Thunderbird
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.514Z

Reserved: 2009-05-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-1840

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-06-12T21:30:00.420

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-1840

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-06-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1840 - Bugzilla

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