CVE-2008-4582

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.

• CWE-264

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

Published

Oct 15, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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