Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.13, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, and possibly conduct phishing…

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.13, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, via a crafted web page that calls window.open with an invalid character in the URL, makes document.write calls to the resulting object, and then calls the stop method during the loading of the error page.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (26)

• ADV-2009-2142 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 36141 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2009-2006 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20090727 Re: URL spoofing bug involving Firefox's error pages and document.write (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:1430 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/28/url-bar-spoofing-vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 266148 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451898 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 36001 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-811-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 35803 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 36670 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 36669 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9686 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8288 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 36126 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:1432 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-44.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8279 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 20090724 URL spoofing bug involving Firefox's error pages and document.write (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 56717 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 1022603 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://es.geocities.com/jplopezy/firefoxspoofing.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• DSA-1873 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:1431 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 36435 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2009-2654](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2009-2654.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2009-2654)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 05:59 UTC.