Vulnerability Details CVE-2008-4582
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.356
EPSS Ranking 96.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32192
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32684
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32693
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32714
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32853
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4416
- http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Nov/1021212.html
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-47.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497091/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31611
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31747
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021190
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2818
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455311
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45740
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html
- http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32192
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32684
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32693
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32714
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32853
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4416
- http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Nov/1021212.html
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-47.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497091/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31611
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31747
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021190
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2818
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455311
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45740
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html
Products affected by CVE-2008-4582
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.10
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.11
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.12
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.13
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.14
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.15
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.16
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.17
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.9
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.10
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.11
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.12
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.9
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:1.0
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:2.0
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:2000
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:3.0
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:3.1
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:3.11
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:server_2008
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:vista