National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3951
Original release date:12/10/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in the Flash Player ActiveX control in Adobe Flash Player before 10.0.42.34 and Adobe AIR before 1.5.3 on Windows allows remote attackers to obtain the names of local files via unknown vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4820.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
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
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-343A
Name: TA09-343A
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-3456
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-19.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023307
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: flash-activex-information-disclosure(54637)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0173
External Source: BID
Name: 37199
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4004
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38241
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37902
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37584
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6663
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 60891
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:062
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2010-01-19-1
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6663
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Information Leak / Disclosure (CWE-200)