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MFSA2008-05 Firefox: Directory traversal via chrome: URI (CVE-2008-0418)

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MFSA2008-05 Firefox: Directory traversal via chrome: URI (CVE-2008-0418)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/08/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8, when using "flat" addons, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary Javascript, image, and stylesheet files via the chrome: URI scheme, as demonstrated by stealing session information from sessionstore.js.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-2_0_0_12

References

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