PT-2008-4245 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+3

Gregory Fleischer · Published 2008-07-07 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-2806

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.15 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.10

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and create arbitrary socket connections via a crafted Java applet. This is related to the Java Embedding Plugin (JEP) and Java LiveConnect.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.15, update to version 2.0.0.15 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.10, update to version 1.1.10 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2806

Affected Products

Java

Java Embedding Plugin

Firefox

Seamonkey

References · 23

• http://secunia.com/advisories/30911 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2806 · Security Note
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.384911 · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.383152 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00288.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-619-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00295.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31021 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31005 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31008 · Note
• http://mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.15 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1993/references · Note
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2646 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30898 · Note