CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1240

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-03-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-03-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

LiveConnect in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.13 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.9 does not properly parse the content origin for jar: URIs before sending them to the Java plugin, which allows remote attackers to access arbitrary ports on the local machine. NOTE: this is closely related to CVE-2008-1195.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 2.0.0.12) • mozilla seamonkey (<= 1.1.8)

References