5.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-0356

Published: 04/02/2009 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.1 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 454
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Mozilla Firefox prior to 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote malicious users to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582.

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mozilla firefox 0.1

mozilla firefox 0.9_rc

mozilla firefox 0.8

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.12

mozilla firefox 1.5

mozilla firefox 2.0_.7

mozilla firefox 1.5.2

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6

mozilla firefox 1.8

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.2

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.10

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3

mozilla firefox

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.11

mozilla firefox 1.5.4

mozilla firefox 1.0.2

mozilla firefox 3.0.4

mozilla firefox 2.0_8

mozilla firefox 2.0_.9

mozilla firefox 0.9.1

mozilla firefox 1.0.4

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.7

mozilla firefox 1.0.7

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.9

mozilla firefox 0.10.1

mozilla firefox 2.0_.1

mozilla firefox 0.9

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.16

mozilla firefox 3.0

mozilla firefox 1.5.6

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.17

mozilla firefox 0.7

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.15

mozilla firefox 0.2

mozilla firefox 0.3

mozilla firefox 2.0_.10

mozilla firefox 1.0

mozilla firefox 3.0.3

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7

mozilla firefox 2.0

mozilla firefox 1.0.1

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.14

mozilla firefox 0.6

mozilla firefox 0.7.1

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.8

mozilla firefox 2.0_.5

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.3

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.9

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5

mozilla firefox 1.5.7

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.12

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.6

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.11

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2

mozilla firefox 1.0.3

mozilla firefox 3.0.1

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.4

mozilla firefox 0.5

mozilla firefox 0.6.1

mozilla firefox 1.5.1

mozilla firefox 0.9.3

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.13

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.18

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1

mozilla firefox 3.0.2

mozilla firefox 2.0_.6

mozilla firefox 2.0_.4

mozilla firefox 1.5.5

mozilla firefox 0.9.2

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.8

mozilla firefox 1.5.8

mozilla firefox 1.5.3

mozilla firefox 0.4

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1

mozilla firefox 0.10

mozilla firefox 1.0.5

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.5

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.10

mozilla firefox 1.0.6

mozilla firefox 1.0.8

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Critical: firefox security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An updated firefox package that fixes various security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-04 Chrome privilege escalation via local desktop files Announced February 3, 2009 Reporter Georgi Guninski Impact Moderate Products Firefox Fixed in ...