CVE-2009-3988

Mozilla violation of same-origin policy due to properties set on objects passed to showModalDialog (MFSA 2010-04)

Published Feb 21, 2010 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 2.1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1999-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-3959 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-895-1 Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-896-1 Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 6:45 AM
Reserved
Nov 19, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 22, 2010, 1:00 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:12 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Feb 17, 2010, 12:00 AM