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…
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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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.2% · top 4.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (32)
- firefox-internet-shortcut-info-disclosure(45740) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- DSA-1697 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1021190 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-1671 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-9667 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0977 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455311 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 32192 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-47.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1021212 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-1669 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 32778 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-9669 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 33433 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2818 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20081007 Firefox Privacy Broken If Used to Open Web Page File (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 256408 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 4416 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 32721 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- TA08-319A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 32853 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1696 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 32693 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32845 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 33434 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32684 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-667-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 31747 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 32714 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31611 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 34501 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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