Is CVE-2008-4582 being actively exploited?

CVE-2008-4582 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2008-4582?

CVE-2008-4582 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2008-4582

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 10.2%EU EUVD

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 through 3.0.3, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13, when running on Windows, do not properly identify the context of Windows .url shortcut files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via an HTML document that is directly accessible through a filesystem, as demonstrated by documents in (1) local folders, (2) Windows share folders, and (3) RAR archives, and as demonstrated by IFRAMEs referencing shortcuts that point to (a) about:cache?device=memory and (b) about:cache?device=disk, a variant of CVE-2008-2810.

Key facts

CVSS score: 4.3 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-264
EPSS score: 10.2% (96th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2008-4562)
Published: October 15, 2008
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4562 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

canonical / ubuntu linux
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canonical / ubuntu linux
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debian / debian linux
microsoft / windows
mozilla / firefox
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References

http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32192(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32684(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32693(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32714(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32853(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4416(Third Party Advisory)
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Nov/1021212.html(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1(Broken Link)
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671(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.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-47.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497091/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31611(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31747(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021190(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2818(Not Applicable)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977(Not Applicable)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455311(Issue Tracking)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45740
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html(Not Applicable)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html(Not Applicable)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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