National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4582
Original release date:10/15/2008
Last revised:08/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-319A
Name: TA08-319A
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-9669
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455311
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-internet-shortcut-info-disclosure(45740)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0977
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021190
External Source: BID
Name: 31747
External Source: BID
Name: 31611
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081007 Firefox Privacy Broken If Used to Open Web Page File
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-47.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2818
Type: Advisory
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1697
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1696
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1671
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1669
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 256408
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021212
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021190
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4416
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33434
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33433
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32845
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32721
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32714
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32693
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32192
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html