CVE-2008-2808

Mozilla Firefox - XSS

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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 (44)

[Issue Tracking] https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2646

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/30878

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/30911

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

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

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

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

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

[Various Sources] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-30.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0547.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0549.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0569.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020419

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-619-1

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411433

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9668

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

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

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Scores

EPSS 0.0208

EPSS Percentile 83.8%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status draft

Affected Products (35)

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

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Timeline

Published Jul 07, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026