CVE-2009-3374

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-10-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS function in the XPCOM implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4 does not enforce intended restrictions on interaction between chrome privileged code and objects obtained from remote web sites, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via unspecified method calls, related to "doubly-wrapped objects."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.0-beta5, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+11)

References

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-57.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505988
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6565
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9789
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-57.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505988

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