CVE-2007-3072

N/A Unknown

Published: June 06, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/#comment-35888

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/35922

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/25481

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470500/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367428

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/