CVE-2008-2808

medium

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00295.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00288.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00207.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9668

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2646

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411433

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1993/references

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-619-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020419

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30038

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494080/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0569.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0549.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0547.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-30.html

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.15

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:136

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1615

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1607

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0216

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.384911

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.383152

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-03.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

http://secunia.com/advisories/31377

http://secunia.com/advisories/31195

http://secunia.com/advisories/31183

http://secunia.com/advisories/31076

http://secunia.com/advisories/31069

http://secunia.com/advisories/31023

http://secunia.com/advisories/31021

http://secunia.com/advisories/31008

http://secunia.com/advisories/31005

http://secunia.com/advisories/30949

http://secunia.com/advisories/30911

http://secunia.com/advisories/30903

http://secunia.com/advisories/30898

http://secunia.com/advisories/30878

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-07-07

Updated: 2018-10-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium