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CVE-2008-4582

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 10.19%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-10-15 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3. It affects Windows, Firefox. Its EPSS score suggests a 10.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable.

CVE
CVE-2008-4582
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
10.19%
Windows Firefox

Original NVD Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 through 3.0.3, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13, when running on Windows, do not properly identify the context of Windows .url shortcut files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via an HTML document that is directly accessible through a filesystem, as demonstrated by documents in (1) local folders, (2) Windows share folders, and (3) RAR archives, and as demonstrated by IFRAMEs referencing shortcuts that point to (a) about:cache?device=memory and (b) about:cache?device=disk, a variant of CVE-2008-2810.