CVE-2007-3072

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.4 on Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..%5C (dot dot encoded backslash) sequences in a resource:// URI.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3

References

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/#comment-35888
http://larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/
http://larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/
http://osvdb.org/35922
http://secunia.com/advisories/25481
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470500/100/0/threaded
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367428
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/#comment-35888
http://larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/
http://larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/

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