CVE-2008-4068
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · Path traversal
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31984Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31985Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31987Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32007Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32010Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32011Advisory