CVE-2008-2801 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2008-2801?

CVE-2008-2801 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 7 Jul 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly implement JAR signing, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) injection of JavaScript into documents within a JAR archive or (2) a JAR archive that uses relative URLs to JavaScript files.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2801?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey.

How do I fix CVE-2008-2801?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2008-2801 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2801 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-gcjc-g9wr-67f2.