CVE-2008-5015

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via malicious code in a file that has already been saved on the local system.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.3; 3.0, 3.0-alpha, 3.0-beta2, 3.0-beta5, 3.0.1, 3.0.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32695
http://secunia.com/advisories/32713
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281

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