CVE-2009-3988

N/A Unknown
Published: February 22, 2010 Modified: April 29, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/37242
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/38847
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1999
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:042
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-04.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-895-1
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-896-1
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0405
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504862
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56362
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8355
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9384
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/37242
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/38847
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1999
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:042
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-04.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-895-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-896-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0405
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504862
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56362
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8355
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9384
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

34 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.4%
61th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

Affected Vendors

mozilla

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