National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3079
Original release date:09/10/2009
Last revised:10/23/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via vectors involving an object, the FeedWriter, and the BrowserFeedWriter.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454363
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022873
External Source: BID
Name: 36343
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1430
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:048
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-51.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1886
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37098
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36757
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36671
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 36671
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36670
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6250
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10390
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10390
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6250
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5