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CVE-2009-3376

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2009-10-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0, does not properly handle a right-to-left override (aka RLO or U+202E) Unicode character in a download filename, which allows remote attackers to spoof file extensions via a crafted filename, as demonstrated by displaying a non-executable extension for an executable file.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Seamonkey

Weakness Type

CWE-16

References