CVE-2009-2654

firefox: URL bar spoofing vulnerability

Published Aug 3, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 5.8 Medium EPSS 4.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.13, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, via a crafted web page that calls window.open with an invalid character in the URL, makes document.write calls to the resulting object, and then calls the stop method during the loading of the error page.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1873-1 New xulrunner packages fix spoofing vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-811-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 5:59 AM
Reserved
Aug 3, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 3, 2009, 2:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:09 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jul 24, 2009, 12:00 AM