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CVE-2008-0418

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—💥 Exploit

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8, when using "flat" addons, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary Javascript, image, and stylesheet files via the chrome: URI scheme, as demonstrated by stealing session information from sessionstore.js.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Affected technologies (3)

Mozilla — FirefoxMozilla — SeamonkeyMozilla — Thunderbird

CWEs

References

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