CVE-2008-4068
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 4.2%EU EUVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to bypass "restrictions imposed on local HTML files," and obtain sensitive information and prompt users to write this information into a file, via directory traversal sequences in a resource: URI.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 4.2% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4053)
- Published
- September 24, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4053 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31984(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31985(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31987(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32007(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32010(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32011(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32012(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32025(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32042(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32044(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32082(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32089(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32092(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32095(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32096(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32144(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32185(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32196(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32845(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501(Third Party Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422(Third Party Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232(Third Party Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-44.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020921(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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