XSS in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-4066
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav�ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.018 (75.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 2.0.0.14, 2.0.0.15, 2.0.0.16
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SLACKWARE)
- secalert@redhat.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_JVNDB, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)