CVE-2009-0357

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 do not properly restrict access from web pages to the (1) Set-Cookie and (2) Set-Cookie2 HTTP response headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from cookies via XMLHttpRequest calls, related to the HTTPOnly protection mechanism.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.5; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+63)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.13; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+21)

References

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070511/bluehat-errata/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0256.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33799
http://secunia.com/advisories/33808
http://secunia.com/advisories/33809
http://secunia.com/advisories/33816
http://secunia.com/advisories/33831
http://secunia.com/advisories/33841
http://secunia.com/advisories/33846
http://secunia.com/advisories/33869
http://secunia.com/advisories/34462

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