CVE-2009-3007

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 and SeaMonkey 1.1.17, and Flock 2.5.1, allow context-dependent attackers to spoof the address bar, via window.open with a relative URI, to show an arbitrary file: URL after a victim has visited any file: URL, as demonstrated by a visit to a file: document written by the attacker.

Affected products

Flock: 2.5.1
Mozilla Firefox: 3.5.1
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.1.7

References

http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53010
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53010

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