CVE-2008-1240

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

LiveConnect in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.13 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.9 does not properly parse the content origin for jar: URIs before sending them to the Java plugin, which allows remote attackers to access arbitrary ports on the local machine. NOTE: this is closely related to CVE-2008-1195.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.12
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.8

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29526
http://secunia.com/advisories/29539
http://secunia.com/advisories/29541
http://secunia.com/advisories/29547
http://secunia.com/advisories/29558
http://secunia.com/advisories/29560
http://secunia.com/advisories/29616
http://secunia.com/advisories/29645
http://secunia.com/advisories/30327
http://secunia.com/advisories/30620
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1

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