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CVE-2008-1240

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-03-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Seamonkey

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References