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CVE-2009-1308
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey allows remote attackers to inject…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving XBL JavaScript bindings and remote stylesheets, as exploited in the wild by a March 2009 eBay listing.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References28
- MDVSA-2009:111 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-3875 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 34894 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1125 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 34758 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35536 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6185 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481558 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7285 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- USN-782-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 35065 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6173 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-18.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10428 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- USN-764-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:141 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:010 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 35042 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 34656 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 34843 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1797 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:0436 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/08/ebay_scam_wizardy/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6296 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1126 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 34780 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 264308 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 1022097 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-1306 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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