CVE-2009-1312

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9 and SeaMonkey 1.1.17 do not block javascript: URIs in Refresh headers in HTTP responses, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors related to (1) injecting a Refresh header or (2) specifying the content of a Refresh header. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 3.6 a1 pre and Mozilla 1.7.x and earlier are also affected.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.8; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+85)
Mozilla Seamonkey: all versions

References

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070309/firefox-header-redirection-javascript-execution/
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/35065
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1
http://websecurity.com.ua/3275/
http://websecurity.com.ua/3386/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:111

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