CVE-2008-0414

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to trick the user into uploading arbitrary files via label tags that shift focus to a file input field, aka "focus spoofing."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.11
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.7

References

http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28758
http://secunia.com/advisories/28815
http://secunia.com/advisories/28839
http://secunia.com/advisories/28864
http://secunia.com/advisories/28865
http://secunia.com/advisories/28877
http://secunia.com/advisories/28879
http://secunia.com/advisories/28924
http://secunia.com/advisories/28939
http://secunia.com/advisories/28958

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