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CVE-2008-2933 Detail

Description

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.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Evaluator Impact

This attack only works if the user is using another internet-connected application with Firefox not running. Using Firefox, or making sure it is at least running, prevents this attack.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/31106 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31120 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31121 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31129 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31145 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31157 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31176 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31183 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31261 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31270 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31306 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31377 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-03.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0238 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1614 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1615 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/130923 CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:148 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-35.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5031400 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0597.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0598.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494860/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30242 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020500 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.380974 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-623-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441120 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43832 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2683 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11618 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2933
NVD Published Date:
07/17/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.