CVE-2008-2808

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% 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-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly escape HTML in file:// URLs in directory listings, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or have unspecified other impact via a crafted filename.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 2.0, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-rc2, 2.0-rc3, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3 (+11)
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://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/30949
http://secunia.com/advisories/31005
http://secunia.com/advisories/31008
http://secunia.com/advisories/31021
http://secunia.com/advisories/31023
http://secunia.com/advisories/31069

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