CVE-2009-3988

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Feb 22, 2010
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2009-3988: Medium severity, CVSS 5.0 | Vulnix