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CVE-2008-5015

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.1 Published: 2008-11-13 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla Firefox

Weakness Type

CWE-94

References