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CVE-2008-5015 (GCVE-0-2008-5015)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-13 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447579 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2008-11-12 00:00
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