CVE-2009-3987: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The GeckoActiveXObject function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, generates different exception messages depending on whether the referenced COM object is listed in the registry, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about installed software by making multiple calls that specify the ProgID values of different COM objects.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 3.0.15; 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 2.0; 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 2009-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.