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CVE-2008-4068

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to bypass "restrictions imposed on local HTML files," and obtain sensitive information and prompt users to write this information into a file, via directory traversal sequences in a resource: URI.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04
• Debian Linux: 4.0
• Mozilla Firefox: before 2.0.0.17; from 3.0 before 3.0.2 — fixed in 2.0.0.17, 3.0.2
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 1.1.12 — fixed in 1.1.12
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 2.0.0.17 — fixed in 2.0.0.17

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.17, 3.0.2; Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.12; Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31984
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31985
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31987
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32007
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32010
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32011
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32012
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32025
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32042
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32044

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