VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-1240

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-03-28
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

LiveConnect in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.13 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.9 does not properly parse the content origin for jar: URIs before sending them to the Java plugin, which allows remote attackers to access arbitrary ports on the local machine. NOTE: this is closely related to CVE-2008-1195.

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