CVE-2009-0357: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 do not properly restrict access from web pages to the (1) Set-Cookie and (2) Set-Cookie2 HTTP response headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from cookies via XMLHttpRequest calls, related to the HTTPOnly protection mechanism.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 3.0.5; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 1.1.13; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …

Published 2009-02-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.