CVE-2008-4068

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-09-24
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

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.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	7.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0908	2008-10-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24