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CVE-2008-4582

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-10-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 through 3.0.3, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13, when running on Windows, do not properly identify the context of Windows .url shortcut files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via an HTML document that is directly accessible through a filesystem, as demonstrated by documents in (1) local folders, (2) Windows share folders, and (3) RAR archives, and as demonstrated by IFRAMEs referencing shortcuts that point to (a) about:cache?device=memory and (b) about:cache?device=disk, a variant of CVE-2008-2810.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10
• Debian Linux: 4.0
• Mozilla Firefox: 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.10 (+7)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+21)

References

• http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32192
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32684
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32693
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32714
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32853
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

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