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CVE-2008-4068

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Publication date:
24/09/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.0.0.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.0 (including) 3.0.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.1.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.0.0.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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