Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with a file: URL loaded through the location bar, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document, aka a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack.
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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1820-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-779-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.702Z

Reserved: 2009-05-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1839

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-06-12T21:30:00.407

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-1839

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-06-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1839 - Bugzilla

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