CVE-2009-4629 describes a privacy vulnerability in Mozilla Necko, affecting applications like Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. The flaw allows DNS prefetching even in mail or editor contexts, enabling remote attackers to infer a user's network location by logging DNS requests triggered by content such as plain text emails. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a low-complexity attack with potential for partial confidentiality impact, but no integrity or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is exploit code publicly available, and the CVE has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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