CVE-2009-3986 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2009-3986?

CVE-2009-3986 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 17 Dec 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 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges by leveraging a reference to a chrome window from a content window, related to the window.opener property.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-3986?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey.

How do I fix CVE-2009-3986?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2009-3986 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-3986 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hm3p-p79c-ph3c.