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medium 6.8

CVE-2009-0253 json

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to trick a user into visiting an arbitrary URL via an onclick action that moves a crafted ele…

published 2009-01-22 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0261

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to trick a user into visiting an arbitrary URL via an onclick action that moves a crafted element to the current mouse position, related to a "Status Bar Obfuscation" and "Clickjacking" attack.

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-2009-0253 updated

mozilla: status bar obfuscation

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-7842)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-7842 Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 - Status Bar Obfuscation / Clickjacking remote, 2009-01-21

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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