XSS in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-5019
The session restore feature in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 and 2.x before 2.0.0.18 allows remote attackers to violate the same origin policy to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors.
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: 0.031 (87.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 7.10, 8.04
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32713 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/32695 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32778 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)