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CVE-2009-1309 Detail

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not properly implement the Same Origin Policy for (1) XMLHttpRequest, involving a mismatch for a document's principal, and (2) XPCNativeWrapper.toString, involving an incorrect __proto__ scope, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and possibly other attacks via a crafted document.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/34758 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/34780 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/34843 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/34844 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/34894 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35042 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35065 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35536 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1797 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:111 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:141 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-19.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0436.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1125.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1126.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34656 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022094 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-782-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1125 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478433 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482206 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5265 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5591 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6139 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6831 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9494 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://usn.ubuntu.com/764-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00683.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-16 Configuration cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-1309
NVD Published Date:
04/22/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.