Vulnerability CVE-2009-3014
Published: 2009-08-31   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 and earlier, 3.5, 3.6 a1 pre, and 3.7 a1 pre; SeaMonkey 1.1.17; and Mozilla 1.7.x and earlier do not properly handle javascript: URIs in HTML links within 302 error documents sent from web servers, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors related to (1) injecting a Location HTTP response header or (2) specifying the content of a Location HTTP response header.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey, Orca Browser and Maxthon
MustLive
31.08.2009

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 
Mozilla -> Mozilla 
Mozilla -> Seamonkey 

 References:
http://websecurity.com.ua/3373/
http://websecurity.com.ua/3386/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506163/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52995
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