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CVE-2009-1312

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1312 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox (before 3.0.9) and SeaMonkey (1.1.17), where the browsers failed to block javascript: URIs within HTTP Refresh headers. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) could allow remote attackers to inject malicious scripts, primarily impacting integrity. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), public exploit code exists via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32942 · Apr 22, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0556 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.33.el2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.37.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.9-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.9-41.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.9-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:1.9.0.9-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-1312Moderate

javascript: URIs

Apr 21, 2009

References

ha.ckers.org / blog/20070309/firefox-header-redirection-javascript-execution
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34758
secunia.com / advisories/34843
secunia.com / advisories/34844
secunia.com / advisories/34894
secunia.com / advisories/35065
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6064
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6131
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6731
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9818
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
usn.ubuntu.com / 764-1
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00683.html
websecurity.com.ua / 3275
websecurity.com.ua / 3386
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mozilla.org / security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-22.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0436.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/504718/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/504723/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/34656
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1125