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&#56325ascript" 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