Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via malicious code in a file that has already been saved on the local system.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-4994 Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via malicious code in a file that has already been saved on the local system.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-667-1 Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:40:16.948Z

Reserved: 2008-11-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-5015

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-11-13T11:30:01.267

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-5015

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-11-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-5015 - Bugzilla

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