CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2399
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• fireftp fireftp (<= 0.98)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30284 Vendor Advisory
- http://vuln.sg/fireftp0971-en.html Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906907 US Government Resource
- http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.58%3Br2=1.59%3Bf=h www.mozdev.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29289 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1596/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42516 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30284 Vendor Advisory
- http://vuln.sg/fireftp0971-en.html Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906907 US Government Resource
- http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.58%3Br2=1.59%3Bf=h www.mozdev.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29289 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1596/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42516 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com