CVE-2009-3008: Christophe Thibault K-Meleon

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

K-Meleon 1.5.3 allows context-dependent attackers to spoof the address bar, via window.open with a relative URI, to show an arbitrary file: URL after a victim has visited any file: URL, as demonstrated by a visit to a file: document written by the attacker.

Affected products

• Christophe Thibault K-Meleon: version 1.5.3 only

Published 2009-08-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.