CVE-2008-2808

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-07-07

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly escape HTML in file:// URLs in directory listings, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or have unspecified other impact via a crafted filename.

See more information about CVE-2008-2808 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0547	2008-07-02
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0549	2008-07-02
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0547	2008-07-02
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0616	2008-07-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0569	2008-07-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0569	2008-07-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-0569	2008-07-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2008-0569	2008-07-02

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