CVE-2008-2808: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly escape HTML in file:// URLs in directory listings, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or have unspecified other impact via a crafted filename.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.0.2 only; version 2.0.0.3 only; version 2.0.0.11 only; version 2.0.0.12 only; version 2.0.0.13 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; version 1.1.5 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: version 2.0_.4 only; version 2.0_.5 only; version 2.0_.6 only; version 2.0_.9 only; version 2.0_.12 only; version 2.0_.13 only; …

Published 2008-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.