CVE-2009-1835: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 associate local documents with external domain names located after the file:// substring in a URL, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary cookies via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a URL with file://example.com/C:/ at the beginning.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 3.0.10; 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 1.1.16; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.6 only; …

Published 2009-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.