CVE-2008-2933

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.16, and 3.x before 3.0.1, interprets '|' (pipe) characters in a command-line URI as requests to open multiple tabs, which allows remote attackers to access chrome:i URIs, or read arbitrary local files via manipulations involving a series of URIs that is not entirely handled by a vector application, as exploited in conjunction with CVE-2008-2540. NOTE: this issue exists because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2005-2267.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.15; 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.10 (+56)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31106
http://secunia.com/advisories/31120
http://secunia.com/advisories/31121
http://secunia.com/advisories/31129
http://secunia.com/advisories/31145
http://secunia.com/advisories/31157
http://secunia.com/advisories/31176
http://secunia.com/advisories/31183
http://secunia.com/advisories/31261
http://secunia.com/advisories/31270
http://secunia.com/advisories/31306
http://secunia.com/advisories/31377

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