CVE-2008-2802

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 and earlier, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XUL document that includes a script from a chrome: URI that points to a fastload file, related to this file's "privilege level."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.14; 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.0.4, 2.0.0.5 (+8)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.9; 1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6 (+2)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.14; 2.0.0.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.0.4, 2.0.0.5 (+6)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30878
http://secunia.com/advisories/30898
http://secunia.com/advisories/30903
http://secunia.com/advisories/30911
http://secunia.com/advisories/30915
http://secunia.com/advisories/30949
http://secunia.com/advisories/31005
http://secunia.com/advisories/31008
http://secunia.com/advisories/31021
http://secunia.com/advisories/31023

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