Path Traversal in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2007-3072
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.4 on Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..%5C (dot dot encoded backslash) sequences in a resource:// URI.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.016 (74.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470500/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- osvdb.org/35922 (vdb-entry)
- larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/
- larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/ (Exploit)
- ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/ (Exploit)
- ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/25481 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)