CVE-2009-4629

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 None

Description

Mozilla Necko, as used in Thunderbird 3.0.1, SeaMonkey, and other applications, performs DNS prefetching even when the app type is APP_TYPE_MAIL or APP_TYPE_EDITOR, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine the network location of the application's user by logging DNS requests, as demonstrated by DNS requests triggered by reading text/plain e-mail messages in Thunderbird.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2009-4629

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2010-01-29T18:30:00

Last Modified Date
2010-02-02T05:00:00

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-200	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::	1	OR
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:3.0.1:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
2.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492196
https://secure.grepular.com/DNS_Prefetch_Exposure_on_Thunderbird_and_Webmail

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4629
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4629

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 11:12:32				Added to TrackCVE