CVE-2009-3988
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.1%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly restrict read access to object properties in showModalDialog, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted dialogArguments values.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.1% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3959)
- Published
- February 22, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3959 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
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37242
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38847
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1999
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:042
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-04.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-895-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-896-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0405
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504862
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56362
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8355
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9384
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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