CVE-2008-4582 Security feature bypass in n/a
Attackers can bypass Same Origin Policy in Firefox on Windows via crafted .url shortcuts, allowing sensitive information disclosure from local or network shares.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2008-4582?
CVE-2008-4582 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 15 Oct 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 3.0.1 through 3.0.3, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13, when running on Windows, do not properly identify the context of Windows .url shortcut files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via an HTML document that is directly accessible through a filesystem, as demonstrated by documents in (1) local folders, (2) Windows share folders, and (3) RAR archives, and as demonstrated by IFRAMEs referencing shortcuts that point to (a) about:cache?device=memory and (b) about:cache?device=disk, a variant of CVE-2008-2810.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4582?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey.
How do I fix CVE-2008-4582?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2008-4582 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-4582 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6m7x-v5gc-rvvh.