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CVE-2008-2399

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 3.49% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-05-22 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
code execution

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CVE
CVE-2008-2399
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
3.49%
Firefox

Original NVD 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.