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medium 4.3

CVE-2009-1835 json

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 associate local documents with external domain names located after the file:// su…

published 2009-06-12 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-1830

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 associate local documents with external domain names located after the file:// substring in a URL, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary cookies via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a URL with file://example.com/C:/ at the beginning.

Patch / fix

  • seamonkey RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.38.el3
  • seamonkey RHEL 4 1.0.9-43.el4_8
  • seamonkey-nss RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.38.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.38.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 4 1.0.9-43.el4_8
  • seamonkey-mail RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.38.el3
  • seamonkey-mail RHEL 4 1.0.9-43.el4_8
  • seamonkey-nspr RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.38.el3

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1096RHSA-2009:1095

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-1835 updated cvss 2.6

file: resources

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.38.el3, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1096
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 3.0.11-2.el5_3, xulrunner 1.9.0.11-3.el5_3, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.11-3.el5_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1095
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.38.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 firefox 3.0.11-4.el4, seamonkey 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-43.el4_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1096
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 3.0.11-2.el5_3, xulrunner 1.9.0.11-3.el5_3, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.11-3.el5_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1095
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 firefox 3.0.11-4.el4, seamonkey 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-43.el4_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1096
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) xulrunner 1.9.0.11-3.el5_3, xulrunner-devel-unstable 1.9.0.11-3.el5_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1095
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.38.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 firefox 3.0.11-4.el4, seamonkey 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-43.el4_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.38.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.38.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 firefox 3.0.11-4.el4, seamonkey 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-43.el4_8, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-43.el4_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1096

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Exploit prediction

2.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503576 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491801 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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