CVE-2008-4582

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455311

http://secunia.com/advisories/32192

http://secunia.com/advisories/32684

http://secunia.com/advisories/32693

http://secunia.com/advisories/32714

http://secunia.com/advisories/32721

http://secunia.com/advisories/32778

http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

http://secunia.com/advisories/32853

http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

http://secunia.com/advisories/33434

http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4416

http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Nov/1021212.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45740

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696

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

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-47.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021190

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2818

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-10-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium