CVE-2009-4102 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Sage 1.4.3 and earlier extension for Firefox performs certain operations with chrome privileges, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and perform cross-domain scripting attacks via the description tag of an RSS feed.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01455.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mozilla	Firefox
Sage.mozdev	Sage

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

OR	cpe:2.3:a:sage.mozdev:sage::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:sage.mozdev:sage:1.3.8:::::::*

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-1951-1	New firefox-sage packages fix insufficient input sanitizing
EUVD	EUVD-2009-4073	Sage 1.4.3 and earlier extension for Firefox performs certain operations with chrome privileges, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and perform cross-domain scripting attacks via the description tag of an RSS feed.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1603515&start=0
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN99203127/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2011-000070
http://secunia.com/advisories/37466
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1951
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8527
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37120
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3324
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54396

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-11-28T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:54:09.125Z

Reserved: 2009-11-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-4102

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-11-29T13:08:29.437

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

Link: CVE-2009-4102

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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