CVE-2008-0414

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-0414
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-02-08 22:00:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to trick the user into uploading arbitrary files via label tags that shift focus to a file input field, aka "focus spoofing."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
USN-576-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1489-1 iceweasel af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Yahoo af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 browser.netscape.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1485-2 icedove af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Mozilla products: Multiple vulnerabilities — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
Sun Solaris Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
MFSA 2008-02: Multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org
rPath update for firefox - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian update for icedove - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1484-1 xulrunner af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:048 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Mozilla Thunderbird/Seamonkey/Firefox 2.0.0.11 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Fedora update for firefox, seamonkey, and gtkmozembedmm - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Fedora update for firefox, seamonkey, gtkmozembedmm, and Miro - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: seamonkey-1.1.8-1.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-18.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Bug List af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
Mozilla SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Mozilla Firefox Lets Remote Users Steal the Focus to Obtain Keystrokes af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
Debian update for iceape - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE update for epiphany - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1506-1 iceape af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Debian update for xulrunner - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian update for iceweasel - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE update for MozillaFirefox and seamonkey - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: firefox-2.0.0.12-1.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Security update for epiphany af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.novell.com
Gentoo Update for Mozilla Products - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ubuntu update for firefox - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Netscape Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Mozilla Firefox and Seam af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Bug List MITRE bugzilla.mozilla.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-02-12Joshua BressersRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0414 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future updates will address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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