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CVE-2009-3985
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…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 28 days later
· 28 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
25
- 1023343 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 37704 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 37699 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8480 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1023342 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- firefox-documentlocation-spoofing(54808) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2009-3547 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 37881 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514232 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-13362 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 37785 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546726 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-874-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 37813 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-13333 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-873-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 37349 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1674 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-13366 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-1956 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-69.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 37856 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 37370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9911 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2009:063 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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-2009-3956 (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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