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High
CVE-2007-3072
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.4 on Windows...
Vulnerability Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.4 on Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..%5C (dot dot encoded backslash) sequences in a resource:// URI.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470500/100/0/threaded
- http://osvdb.org/35922
- http://larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/
- http://larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/#comment-35888
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367428
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25481
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 6th, 2007
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.