CVE-2009-2472

Mozilla Firefox <3.0.12 - XSS

Title source: llm

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 does not always use XPCCrossOriginWrapper when required during object construction, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted document, related to a "cross origin wrapper bypass."

References (18)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html

[Broken Link] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/35914

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/35944

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/36005

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/36145

[Broken Link] http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-265068-1

[Broken Link] http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020800.1-1

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-40.html

[Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2152

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479288

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481434

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497102

[Third Party Advisory] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9497

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01032.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0070

EPSS Percentile 71.8%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (11)

mozilla/firefox < 3.0.12

fedoraproject/fedora

suse/linux_enterprise_debuginfo

suse/linux_enterprise_debuginfo

opensuse/opensuse

opensuse/opensuse

suse/linux_enterprise_desktop

suse/linux_enterprise_desktop

suse/linux_enterprise_server

suse/linux_enterprise_server

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Jul 22, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026