THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-4067
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2008-4067

Firefox vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
4.4%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
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 on Linux allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) and URL-encoded / (slash) characters in a resource: URI.
Affected vendor
Mozilla
Affected product
Firefox
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-09-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 4.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-4067

  • Confirm whether Mozilla Firefox is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4067.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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