Vulnerability CVE-2008-2399
Published: 2008-05-22   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Fireftp -> Fireftp 

 References:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906907
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42516
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1596/references
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29289
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in.diff?r1=1.58;r2=1.59;f=h
http://vuln.sg/fireftp0971-en.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30284
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