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CVE-2009-1834

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1834 describes a visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17, allowing remote attackers to spoof the location bar. This medium-complexity attack (CVSS 4.3) leverages invalid Unicode characters in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) to display whitespace, potentially tricking users into believing they are on a legitimate site. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit for address bar URI spoofing exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.0.10CPE 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
3.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33039 · May 11, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0323 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.11-4.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:3.0.11-2.el5_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:1.9.0.11-3.el5_3
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-1834Low

Firefox URL spoofing with invalid unicode characters

Jun 11, 2009

References

osvdb.org / 55162
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/35331
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35415
secunia.com / advisories/35431
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35439
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35468
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10436
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1820
mozilla.org / security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-25.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/35326
securityfocus.com / bid/35388
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1572
PatchVendor Advisory