National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3375
Original release date:10/29/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
content/html/document/src/nsHTMLDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read an arbitrary content selection via the document.getSelection function.
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 disclosure of information
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-61.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503226
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:5935
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10440
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5935
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10440
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)