Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
CVE-2008-4582
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 through 3.0.3, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13, when running on Windows, do not properly identify the context of Windows .url shortcut files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via an HTML document that is directly accessible through a filesystem, as demonstrated by documents in (1) local folders, (2) Windows share folders, and (3) RAR archives, and as demonstrated by IFRAMEs referencing shortcuts that point to (a) about:cache?device=memory and (b) about:cache?device=disk, a variant of CVE-2008-2810.
EPSS: 0.102 (95.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 6.06, 7.10, 8.04
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 4.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA, Not Applicable)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Not Applicable, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (Permissions Required, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)