CVE-2008-4068 — Path Traversal in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-22 — Path Traversal8 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 49.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+2 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 24
Latest updateMay 2

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:C/I:N/A:NExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox3.0 — 3.0.2+1
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey< 1.1.12
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 2.0.0.17

Also affects: Debian Linux 4.0, Ubuntu Linux 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-qx75-v3cf-r4q5: Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2↗2022-05-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2008-09-26
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Ubuntu
Firefox and xulrunner regression↗2008-09-25
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2008-09-24
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Ubuntu
Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities↗2008-09-24
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Red Hat
recource: bypass↗2008-09-23
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-4068 Mozilla local HTML file recource: bypass↗2008-09-22
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