CVE-2008-2399 (GCVE-0-2008-2399)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-22 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:58
VLAI
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in the FireFTP add-on before 0.98.20080518 for Firefox allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via ..\ (dot dot backslash) sequences in responses to (1) MLSD and (2) LIST commands, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/c… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29289 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/30284 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://vuln.sg/fireftp0971-en.html x_refsource_MISC
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906907 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
Date Public
2008-05-19 00:00
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