Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.16, and 3.x before 3.0.1, interprets '|' (pipe) characters in a command-line URI as requests to open multiple tabs, which allows remote attackers to access chrome:i URIs, or read arbitrary local files via manipulations involving a series of URIs that is not entirely handled by a vector application, as exploited in conjunction with CVE-2008-2540. NOTE: this issue exists because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2005-2267.
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-2 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43832 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2683 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2933 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11618 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2933 cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-07-17T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:21:34.997Z

Reserved: 2008-06-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-2933

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-17T13:41:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-11T20:45:01.200

Link: CVE-2008-2933

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-07-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2933 - Bugzilla