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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 24, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2008-4068

CVE-2008-4068

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

8
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: <2.0.0.17
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: <1.1.12
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: <2.0.0.17
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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