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CVE-2009-3014

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 and earlier, 3.5, 3.6 a1 pre, and 3.7 a1 pre; SeaMonkey 1.1.17; and Mozilla 1.7.x and earlier do not properly handle javascript: URIs in HTML links within 302 error documents sent from web servers, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors related to (1) injecting a Location HTTP response header or (2) specifying the content of a Location HTTP response header.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.13; 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6 (+9)
• Mozilla: through 1.7; 0.8, 0.9.2, 0.9.2.1, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1 (+36)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.1.17

References

• http://websecurity.com.ua/3373/
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3386/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506163/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52995
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3373/
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3386/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506163/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52995

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