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CVE-2009-4629

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

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.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (2)

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T23:14:03.297",
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