CVE-2008-5015

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via malicious code in a file that has already been saved on the local system.

• CWE-94

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32695
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32713
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021191
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.htmlUS Government Resource
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447579
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11063
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32695
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32713
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021191
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.htmlUS Government Resource
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447579
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11063
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html

Published

Nov 13, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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