Path Traversal in Fireftp
CVE-2008-2399
Directory traversal vulnerability in the FireFTP add-on before 0.98.20080518 for Firefox allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via ..\ (dot dot backslash) sequences in responses to (1) MLSD and (2) LIST commands, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
EPSS: 0.035 (87.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Fireftp
- Mozilla Firefox
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)