CVE-2009-1839
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.4EPSS 7.1%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with a file: URL loaded through the location bar, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document, aka a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 7.1% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1834)
- Published
- June 12, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1834 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
References
- http://osvdb.org/55163
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35331(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35415
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35431(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35468
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-30.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35386
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479943
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503581
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9256
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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