CVE-2008-5015

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-11-13
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via malicious code in a file that has already been saved on the local system.

See more information about CVE-2008-5015 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.1
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13