CVE-2009-3078

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, allows remote attackers to trigger a vertical scroll and spoof URLs via unspecified Unicode characters with a tall line-height property.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.13; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+100)

References

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/mfsa2009-50.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36343
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022875
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453827
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10871

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