CVE-2008-5015

Firefox < 3.0.4 - Privilege Escalation via file: URI Chrome Privilege Assignment

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via malicious code in a file that has already been saved on the local system.

References (19)

Core 19
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11063
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021191
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32713
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32695
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447579
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

Scores

EPSS 0.0217
EPSS Percentile 80.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (4)
mozilla/firefox 3.0 (4 CPE variants)
mozilla/firefox 3.0.1
mozilla/firefox 3.0.2
mozilla/firefox < 3.0.3
Published Nov 13, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026