VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2007-3072
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.4 on Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..%5C (dot dot encoded backslash) sequences in a resource:// URI.
HIGH 7.1EPSS 1.58%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.58%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.4 on Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..%5C (dot dot encoded backslash) sequences in a resource:// URI.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.1 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.58% probability · 74th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/Exploit
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/#comment-35888
- http://larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/Exploit
- http://larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/
- http://osvdb.org/35922
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25481Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470500/100/0/threaded
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367428
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/Exploit
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/#comment-35888
- http://larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/Exploit
- http://larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/
- http://osvdb.org/35922
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25481Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470500/100/0/threaded
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367428
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.