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CVE-2008-2399

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.

Published

2008-05-22T13:09:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 9.3 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-22

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	fireftp	fireftp	≤ 0.98	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox	*	No

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30284 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://vuln.sg/fireftp0971-en.html Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906907 US Government Resource ([email protected])
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.58%3Br2=1.59%3Bf=h ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29289 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1596/references ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42516 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/30284 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://vuln.sg/fireftp0971-en.html Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906907 US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.58%3Br2=1.59%3Bf=h (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29289 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1596/references (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42516 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)