CVE-2008-4582
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.
Published:Oct 8, 2008
Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
EPS:Oct 15, 2008
EPSS Score:0.3558
CVSS Score:4.3
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Canonical
Product
Ubuntu Linux
Canonical
Ubuntu Linux
Vendor
Debian
Product
Debian Linux
Debian
Debian Linux
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows
Microsoft
Windows
Vendor
Mozilla
Product
Firefox
Mozilla
Firefox
Vendor
Mozilla
Product
Seamonkey
Mozilla
Seamonkey
Common Weakness Enumeration
No CWE recorded yet
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
