01 Record
CVE-2008-5015
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.21% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-11-13 11:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-11-10
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9f47eba9af8a2c12fdd34bf8b279474aa0c1fbda17297248d1e2e0ff2e7a2405
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-3146http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:11063https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11063
- www.securitytracker.com1021191http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021191
- www.securityfocus.com32281http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281
- secunia.com32713http://secunia.com/advisories/32713
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:230http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-0977http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- secunia.com32695http://secunia.com/advisories/32695
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2008:0978http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html
- secunia.com32778http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447579
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-9669https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html
- sunsolve.sun.com256408http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SA:2008:055http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html
- secunia.com32721http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
- www.us-cert.govTA08-319Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.html
- ubuntu.comUSN-667-1http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
- secunia.com34501http://secunia.com/advisories/34501