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CVE-2009-3008

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

K-Meleon 1.5.3 allows 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

• Christophe Thibault K-Meleon: 1.5.3

References

• http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53011
• http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2009/08/multiple-browsers-fake-url-folder-file.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53011

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