CVE-2008-0592
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 1.8%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plain .txt file with a "Content-Disposition: attachment" and an invalid "Content-Type: plain/text," which prevents Firefox from rendering future plain text files within the browser.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 1.8% (78th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0602)
- Published
- February 9, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0602 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
References
- http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28754
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28818
- 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/29086
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29167
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29567
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30327
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30620
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/6251b18e050302ebe7fe74294b55c818.html
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051
- 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.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:048
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-09.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0103.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0104.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0105.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487826/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488002/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27683
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019340
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-576-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0453/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0627/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387258(Exploit)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9972
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00274.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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