Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-5510
The CSS parser in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 ignores the '\0' escaped null character, which might allow remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms such as sanitization routines.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.022 (81.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 7.10, 8.04, 8.10
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0, 5.0
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/33408 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9662 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/33205 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-67.html (Vendor Advisory)