Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-0068

RCE

Title: Mozilla Firefox RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-0068.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date Jan 07, 2009

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-0068: Interaction error in xdg-open allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a file with a dangerous MIME type but using a safe type that Firefox sends to xdg-open, which causes xdg-open to process the dangerous file type through automatic type detection, as demonstrated by overwriting the .desktop file.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 1

gentoo 1

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/06/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33137 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19377 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/06/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33137 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19377

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-0068 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 07, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.