CVE-2008-2933
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.16, and 3.x before 3.0.1, interprets '|' (pipe) characters in a command-line URI as requests to open multiple tabs, which allows remote attackers to access chrome:i URIs, or read arbitrary local files via manipulations involving a series of URIs that is not entirely handled by a vector application, as exploited in conjunction with CVE-2008-2540. NOTE: this issue exists because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2005-2267.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.8% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2926)
- Published
- July 17, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2926 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
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References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31106
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31120
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31121
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31129
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31145
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31157
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31176
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31183
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31261
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31270
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31306
- 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://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0238
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1614
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1615
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/130923(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:148
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-35.html
- http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5031400
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0597.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0598.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494860/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30242
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020500
- http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.380974
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-623-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-2
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441120
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43832
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2683
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11618
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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