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CVE-2008-4582

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
15/10/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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

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

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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