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CVE-2008-4068

CVSS v2.0 7.8 (High)
78% Progress
EPSS 0.31 % (70th)
0.31% Progress
Affected Products 5
Advisories 12
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2008-09-24 20:37:04
(16 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-11-01 15:15:07
(5 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Mozilla

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Mozilla Firefox prior 2.0.0.17 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox < 2.0.0.17
  Mozilla Firefox from 3.0 version and prior 3.0.2 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox >= 3.0 < 3.0.2
  Mozilla Seamonkey prior 1.1.12 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey < 1.1.12
  Mozilla Thunderbird prior 2.0.0.17 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird < 2.0.0.17

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 4.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.06 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts