CVE-2008-3837
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 3.3%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12, allow user-assisted remote attackers to move a window during a mouse click, and possibly force a file download or unspecified other drag-and-drop action, via a crafted onmousedown action that calls window.moveBy, a variant of CVE-2003-0823.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 3.3% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3823)
- Published
- September 24, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-3823 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
References
- http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31984(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31985(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31987(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32010(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32011(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32012(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32042(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32044(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32089(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32095(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32096(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32144(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32185(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32196(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32845(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501(Third Party Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422(Third Party Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-40.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020922(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329385(Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45348(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9950(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01335.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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