CVE-2008-2806

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% 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-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 on Mac OS X allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and create arbitrary socket connections via a crafted Java applet, related to the Java Embedding Plugin (JEP) and Java LiveConnect.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 2.0, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-rc2, 2.0-rc3, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3 (+12)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.1-beta, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+4)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 2.0_.4, 2.0_.5, 2.0_.6, 2.0_.9, 2.0_.12, 2.0_.13 (+2)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30898
http://secunia.com/advisories/30911
http://secunia.com/advisories/31005
http://secunia.com/advisories/31008
http://secunia.com/advisories/31021
http://secunia.com/advisories/31023
http://secunia.com/advisories/31076
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.383152
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.384911
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0216
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.15

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