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CVE-2008-4582 Detail

Current Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32192 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32684 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32693 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32714 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32853 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4416 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Nov/1021212.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-47.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497091/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31611 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31747 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021190 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2818 CVE, MITRE Not Applicable 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 CVE, MITRE Not Applicable 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455311 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45740 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html CVE, MITRE Not Applicable 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html CVE, MITRE Not Applicable 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-4582
NVD Published Date:
10/15/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE