CVE-2008-2399
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 3.5%EU EUVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in the FireFTP add-on before 0.98.20080518 for Firefox allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via ..\ (dot dot backslash) sequences in responses to (1) MLSD and (2) LIST commands, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 3.5% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2394)
- Published
- May 22, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2394 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fireftp / fireftp
- mozilla / firefox
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30284(Vendor Advisory)
- http://vuln.sg/fireftp0971-en.html(Exploit)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906907(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.58%3Br2=1.59%3Bf=h
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29289
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1596/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42516
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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