CVE-2009-1839

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-06-12

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.

See more information about CVE-2009-1839 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.4	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2009-1095	2009-06-12
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2009-1095	2009-06-12
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2009-1095	2009-06-12

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