CVE-2009-1840 (GCVE-0-2009-1840)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-06-12 21:07 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:27
VLAI
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not check content policy before loading a script file into a XUL document, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a "web bug" in an e-mail message, or web script or an advertisement in a web page.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477979 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://osvdb.org/55158 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/35440 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35431 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35331 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35468 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/35439 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35415 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022379 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503582 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2009-06-11 00:00
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      "id": "CVE-2009-1840",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:03:47Z",
      "product_status:recommended": "79",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2009-1840",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2009-1840.json",
      "version": "8"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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