K-Meleon 1.5.3 allows context-dependent attackers to spoof the address bar, via window.open with a relative URI, to show an arbitrary file: URL after a victim has visited any file: URL, as demonstrated by a visit to a file: document written by the attacker.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2993 K-Meleon 1.5.3 allows context-dependent attackers to spoof the address bar, via window.open with a relative URI, to show an arbitrary file: URL after a victim has visited any file: URL, as demonstrated by a visit to a file: document written by the attacker.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:14:55.254Z

Reserved: 2009-08-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-3008

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-08-28T15:30:00.843

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

Link: CVE-2009-3008

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