CVE-2009-3478

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in (1) src/content/js/connection/sftp.js and (2) src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in in FireFTP Extension 1.0.5 for Firefox allows remote authenticated SFTP users to cause victims to alter permissions, delete, download, or move the wrong file via a filename containing " (double quotes), which is not properly filtered or encoded when FireFTP constructs the command to send to psftp.exe.

Affected products

Nightlight Fireftp: 1.0.5

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36860
http://vuln.sg/fireftp105-en.html
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.74%3Br2=1.75%3Bf=h
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.75%3Br2=1.76%3Bf=h
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/sftp.js.diff?r1=1.8%3Br2=1.9%3Bf=h
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36536
http://secunia.com/advisories/36860
http://vuln.sg/fireftp105-en.html
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.74%3Br2=1.75%3Bf=h
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.75%3Br2=1.76%3Bf=h
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/sftp.js.diff?r1=1.8%3Br2=1.9%3Bf=h
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36536

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