CVE-2008-5015
Mozilla Firefox Chrome Privilege Escalation
Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via malicious code in a file that has already been saved on the local system.
INFO
Published Date :
Nov. 13, 2008, 11:30 a.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
6.4
Exploitability Score :
4.9
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32695 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32713 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32721 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32778 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 Added Reference http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 Added Reference http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021191 Added Reference http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447579 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11063 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11063 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11063 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Nov. 13, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-5015 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2008-5015
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
5.71 }} -3.36%
score
0.89495
percentile