HIGH
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 and earlier on Mac OS X and Unix allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..%2F (dot dot encoded slash) sequences in a resource:// URI
Published Jun 6, 2007
7.8
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.69%
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 and earlier on Mac OS X and Unix allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..%2F (dot dot encoded slash) sequences in a resource:// URI.
Affected products
No data.
AND
Running on/with
OR
- n/a
- 10.0
- 10.0.1
- 10.0.2
- 10.0.3
- 10.0.4
- 10.1
- 10.1.1
- 10.1.2
- 10.1.3
- 10.1.4
- 10.1.5
- 10.2
- 10.2.1
- 10.2.2
- 10.2.3
- 10.2.4
- 10.2.5
- 10.2.6
- 10.2.7
- 10.2.8
- 10.3
- 10.3.1
- 10.3.2
- 10.3.3
- 10.3.4
- 10.3.5
- 10.3.6
- 10.3.7
- 10.3.8
- 10.3.9
- 10.4
- 10.4.1
- 10.4.2
- 10.4.3
- 10.4.4
- 10.4.5
- 10.4.6
- 10.4.7
- 10.4.8
- 10.4.9
- n/a
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
7.8 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
1.69% 0.01687
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.01687
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (17 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.69% (0.01687) | 76.20th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.69% (0.01687) | 73.97th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.82% (0.01816) | 81.64th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 5.59% (0.05595) | 93.54th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 5.59% (0.05595) | 93.34th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 17, 2024 | 7.23% (0.07232) | 94.01th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 9, 2024 | 6.33% (0.06334) | 93.50th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 2, 2024 | 4.73% (0.04731) | 92.44th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 24, 2024 | 9.09% (0.09089) | 94.06th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 8, 2023 | 7.46% (0.07459) | 93.40th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 1, 2023 | 5.26% (0.05263) | 92.11th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 12, 2023 | 5.69% (0.05686) | 92.19th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 5.28% (0.05281) | 91.83th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.41% (0.01408) | 72.89th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Mar 2, 2023 | 1.41% (0.01408) | 72.88th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.41% (0.01408) | 70.87th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.41% (0.01408) | 49.94th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (8)
- http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/ x_refsource_MISC
- http://larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/ x_refsource_MISC
- http://larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/ x_refsource_MISC
- http://osvdb.org/35920 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25481 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470500/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367428 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380994 x_refsource_CONFIRM
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/ | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://larholm.com/2007/05/25/firefox-0day-local-file-reading/ | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://larholm.com/2007/06/04/unpatched-input-validation-flaw-in-firefox-2004/ | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://osvdb.org/35920 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/25481 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470500/100/0/threaded | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367428 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380994 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 6, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jun 5, 2007
Link CVE-2007-3073
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a