CVE-2008-4582 | BDVDB-2026-32917 Detail
Description#
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 through 3.0.3, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13, when running on Windows, do not properly identify the context of Windows .url shortcut files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via an HTML document that is directly accessible through a filesystem, as demonstrated by documents in (1) local folders, (2) Windows share folders, and (3) RAR archives, and as demonstrated by IFRAMEs referencing shortcuts that point to (a) about:cache?device=memory and (b) about:cache?device=disk, a variant of CVE-2008-2810.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45740
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021190
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455311
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32192
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-47.html
- http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Nov/1021212.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2818
Show all 32
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497091/100/0/threaded
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4416
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32853
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32693
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32684
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31747
- http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32714
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31611
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.