CVE-2008-2806

high

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 on Mac OS X allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and create arbitrary socket connections via a crafted Java applet, related to the Java Embedding Plugin (JEP) and Java LiveConnect.

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-2799

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408329

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.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-28.html

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

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

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://secunia.com/advisories/31076

http://secunia.com/advisories/31023

http://secunia.com/advisories/31021

http://secunia.com/advisories/31008

http://secunia.com/advisories/31005

http://secunia.com/advisories/30911

http://secunia.com/advisories/30898

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-07-07

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02553