National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3374
Original release date:10/29/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS function in the XPCOM implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4 does not enforce intended restrictions on interaction between chrome privileged code and objects obtained from remote web sites, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via unspecified method calls, related to "doubly-wrapped objects."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
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; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-57.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505988
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-3334
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:294
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 272909
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9789
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6565
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6565
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9789
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)