CVE-2009-3375 (GCVE-0-2009-3375)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-29 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
content/html/document/src/nsHTMLDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read an arbitrary content selection via the document.getSelection function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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Date Public
2009-10-27 00:00
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