PT-2008-2050 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+3

Published

2008-02-08

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Updated

2024-12-12

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CVE-2008-0418

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.12 Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.12 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.8
Description A directory traversal issue exists when using "flat" addons, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary Javascript, image, and stylesheet files via the chrome: URI scheme. This can be exploited to steal session information from sessionstore.js.
Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.12, update to version 2.0.0.12 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.12, update to version 2.0.0.12 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.8, update to version 1.1.8 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0418
DSA-1484-1
DSA-1485-2
DSA-1489-1
DSA-1506-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
RHSA-2008:0103
RHSA-2008:0104
RHSA-2008:0105
RHSA-2008_0103
RHSA-2008_0104
RHSA-2008_0105

Affected Products

Firefox
Red Hat
Seamonkey
Thunderbird