CVE-2009-1835

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: 2009-06-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 associate local documents with external domain names located after the file:// substring in a URL, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary cookies via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a URL with file://example.com/C:/ at the beginning.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.10; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+94)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.16; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+20)

References

http://osvdb.org/55161
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1096.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35331
http://secunia.com/advisories/35415
http://secunia.com/advisories/35428
http://secunia.com/advisories/35431
http://secunia.com/advisories/35439
http://secunia.com/advisories/35468
http://secunia.com/advisories/35561
http://secunia.com/advisories/35882
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.425408

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