CVE-2008-5015 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2008-5015?

CVE-2008-5015 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 13 Nov 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5015?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5015?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2008-5015 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5015 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-w7p9-j7cw-wfpm.