CVE-2008-2399

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.

Date published : 2008-05-22

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29289

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906907