4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
64.9%
Security researcher Takeshi Terada reported a mechanism to violate same-origin policy for local files using file:// through the use of symbolic links. This problem only affects web pages loaded from the local filesystem. This could allow for cross-site scripting (XSS) and access to locally stored Firefox files containing passwords and cookies.