CVE-2011-0071

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-05-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.19 and 3.6.x before 3.6.17, Thunderbird before 3.1.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.14 on Windows allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files, and possibly load resources, via vectors involving a resource: URL.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.18; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+99)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.13; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+51)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.1.9; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+76)

References

http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100144158
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2227
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2228
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2235
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:079
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:080
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-16.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624764
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14058
http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100144158
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2227
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2228

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