CVE-2008-4068

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to bypass "restrictions imposed on local HTML files," and obtain sensitive information and prompt users to write this information into a file, via directory traversal sequences in a resource: URI.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.8/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 24, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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