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CVE-2008-2399

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-05-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxFireftp Fireftp

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References