National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0357
Original release date:02/04/2009
Last revised:09/13/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 do not properly restrict access from web pages to the (1) Set-Cookie and (2) Set-Cookie2 HTTP response headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from cookies via XMLHttpRequest calls, related to the HTTPOnly protection mechanism.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-3101
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-1399
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380418
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0313
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-717-2
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-717-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021668
External Source: BID
Name: 33598
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0257
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-05.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:044
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-040.htm
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2009-083-02
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34527
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34462
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33869
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33846
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33841
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33831
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33816
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33809
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33808
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33799
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0256
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9459
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:009
External Source: MISC
Name: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070511/bluehat-errata/
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9459
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)