CVE-2009-1312: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9 and SeaMonkey 1.1.17 do not block javascript: URIs in Refresh headers in HTTP responses, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors related to (1) injecting a Refresh header or (2) specifying the content of a Refresh header. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 3.6 a1 pre and Mozilla 1.7.x and earlier are also affected.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 3.0.8; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: any version

Published 2009-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.