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CVE-2009-1839 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://osvdb.org/55163 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35331 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35415 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/35431 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35468 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468 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-1820 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-30.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35386 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479943 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503581 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9256 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-1839
NVD Published Date:
06/12/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.