CVE-2008-4582

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

• NVD record
• http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32192Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32684Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32693Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32714Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32721Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32778Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32845Advisory