CVE-2008-0592

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plain .txt file with a "Content-Disposition: attachment" and an invalid "Content-Type: plain/text," which prevents Firefox from rendering future plain text files within the browser.

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/28754
http://secunia.com/advisories/28818
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
http://secunia.com/advisories/29086

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