CVE-2008-2801
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 2.8%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly implement JAR signing, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) injection of JavaScript into documents within a JAR archive or (2) a JAR archive that uses relative URLs to JavaScript files.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- EPSS score
- 2.8% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2794)
- Published
- July 7, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2794 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- 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
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30878
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30898
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30903
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30911(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30949
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31005
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31008
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31021
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31023
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31069
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31076
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31183
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31195
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31377
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-03.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.383152
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.384911
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0216
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1607
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1615
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:136
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.15
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-23.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0547.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0549.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0569.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494080/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30038
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020419
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-619-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1993/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418996
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424188
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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