Path Traversal in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-4068
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to bypass "restrictions imposed on local HTML files," and obtain sensitive information and prompt users to write this information into a file, via directory traversal sequences in a resource: URI.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.042 (90.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.042 · newest: 0.042 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 7.04, 7.10
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/32025 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32011 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- slackware.com/security/viewer.php (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32096 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32144 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32010 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)