CVE-2009-1597

Published: 11 May 2009

Mozilla Firefox executes DOM calls in response to a javascript: URI in the target attribute of a submit element within a form contained in an inline PDF file, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended Adobe Acrobat JavaScript restrictions on accessing the document object, as demonstrated by a web site that permits PDF uploads by untrusted users, and therefore has a shared document.domain between the web site and this javascript: URI. NOTE: the researcher reports that Adobe's position is "a PDF file is active content."

Notes

Requires inline PDF with acroread. PDF is active content, ignoring
until upstream has more information.

Status

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1597
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian