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FKIE_CVE-2009-0253

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-01-22 18:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:04

Severity

Summary

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to trick a user into visiting an arbitrary URL via an onclick action that moves a crafted element to the current mouse position, related to a "Status Bar Obfuscation" and "Clickjacking" attack.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4936
	cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48212
	cve@mitre.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7842
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4936
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48212
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7842

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mozilla	firefox	3.0.5

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CVE-2009-0253 (GCVE-0-2009-0253)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-22 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:24

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7842	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4936	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON

Date Public

2009-01-21 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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