4.3

CVE-2008-2808: mozilla firefox Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
Published 07-07-2008Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-2808 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
17/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.35%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7

Timeline

  1. 07-07-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly escape HTML in file:// URLs in directory listings, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or have unspecified other impact via a crafted filename.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.35%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

71%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.35% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.35%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Mozilla3 products
  • firefox2.0 | 2.0:beta_1 | 2.0:rc2 | 2.0:rc3 | 2.0.0.2 | 2.0.0.3 | 2.0.0.11 | 2.0.0.12 | 2.0.0.13 | 2.0.0.14 | 2.0_.1 | 2.0_.4 | 2.0_.5 | 2.0_.6 | 2.0_.9 | 2.0_.10 | 2.0_8
  • seamonkey1.1:beta | 1.1.1 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.3 | 1.1.4 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.7 | 1.1.8 | 1.1.9
  • thunderbird2.0_.4 | 2.0_.5 | 2.0_.6 | 2.0_.9 | 2.0_.12 | 2.0_.13 | 2.0_.14 | 2.0_8

1 vendor · 3 products

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