CVE-2008-2545 (GCVE-0-2008-2545)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-06-06 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Skype 3.6.0.248, and other versions before 3.8.0.139, uses a case-sensitive comparison when checking for dangerous extensions, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass warning dialogs and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file: URI with a dangerous extension that uses a different case.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020201 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/30547 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1749… | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29553 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE |
| http://www.skype.com/security/skype-sb-2008-003.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2008-06-04 00:00
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"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"tags": [
"Patch"
],
"url": "http://www.skype.com/security/skype-sb-2008-003.html"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1749/references"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43044"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "CWE-20"
}
],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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