CVE-2009-1840

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedJun 12, 2009
First seenJun 12, 2009

How to fix

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—
mozilla seamonkeyNo range specified—
mozilla thunderbirdNo range specified—

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