CVE-2009-1839

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.4
Exploit probability94. percentile7.1%
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedJun 12, 2009
First seenJun 12, 2009

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Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv ≤ 3.0.10, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0beta5, 3.1—

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