CVE-2008-0418
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 8.6%EU EUVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8, when using "flat" addons, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary Javascript, image, and stylesheet files via the chrome: URI scheme, as demonstrated by stealing session information from sessionstore.js.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 8.6% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0428)
- Published
- February 8, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0428 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28622/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28754
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28766
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28808
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28815
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28818
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28839
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28864
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28865
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28877
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28879
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28924
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28939
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28958
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29049
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29086
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29098
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29164
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29167
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29211
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29567
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30327
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30620
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31043
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.445399
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/6251b18e050302ebe7fe74294b55c818.html
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0093
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0093
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1506
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml
- http://www.hiredhacker.com/2008/01/19/firefox-chrome-url-handling-directory-traversal/
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/309608(US Government Resource)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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