XSS in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-2783
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (75.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/20709 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21176 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 (vdb-entry)
- usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/ (vendor-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/296-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/323-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20561 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21210 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)