XSS in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-0416
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.
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: 0.016 (75.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29541 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488 (vdb-entry)
- jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30620 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28865 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28879 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30327 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1 (vendor-advisory)