CVE-2009-3076

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 does not properly implement certain dialogs associated with the (1) pkcs11.addmodule and (2) pkcs11.deletemodule operations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into installing or removing an arbitrary PKCS11 module.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.13; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+97)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36669
http://secunia.com/advisories/36670
http://secunia.com/advisories/36671
http://secunia.com/advisories/36692
http://secunia.com/advisories/37098
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1885
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-48.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1431.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html

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