CVE-2009-1311

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 allow user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a web page with an embedded frame, which causes POST data from an outer page to be sent to the inner frame's URL during a SAVEMODE_FILEONLY save of the inner frame.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.8; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+87)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.16; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+27)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34758
http://secunia.com/advisories/34843
http://secunia.com/advisories/34844
http://secunia.com/advisories/34894
http://secunia.com/advisories/35042
http://secunia.com/advisories/35065
http://secunia.com/advisories/35561
http://secunia.com/advisories/35882
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.425408
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1

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