CVE-2009-1835 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2009-1835?

CVE-2009-1835 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 12 Jun 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 associate local documents with external domain names located after the file:// substring in a URL, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary cookies via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a URL with file://example.com/C:/ at the beginning.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1835?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey.

How do I fix CVE-2009-1835?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2009-1835 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-1835 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3679-rrg7-2vqr.