CVE-2009-3985

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to associate spoofed content with an invalid URL by setting document.location to this URL, and then writing arbitrary web script or HTML to the associated blank document, a related issue to CVE-2009-2654.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.15; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+103)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+39)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/37699
http://secunia.com/advisories/37704
http://secunia.com/advisories/37785
http://secunia.com/advisories/37813
http://secunia.com/advisories/37856
http://secunia.com/advisories/37881
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023342
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023343
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1956
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-69.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_63_firefox.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37349

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