CVE-2009-0356

MediumCVSS 5.1/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.1/10AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 4, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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