National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1309
Original release date:04/22/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-3875
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482206
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478433
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1125
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-764-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-782-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022094
External Source: BID
Name: 34656
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1126
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1125
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0436
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-19.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:141
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:111
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1797
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 264308
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35536
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35065
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35042
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34894
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34844
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34843
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34780
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34758
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0437
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9494
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6831
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6139
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5591
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5265
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:010
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5591
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6831
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5265
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6139
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9494
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5