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CVE-2008-4066

Date: September 24, 2008

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."

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (48)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32012

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32010

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32196

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31985

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31984

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8880

Url: http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html

Url: http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript-protocol-fuzz-results/

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32082

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html

Url: http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649

Url: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4066

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32144

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32044

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45358

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-4066

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32185

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32042

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32007

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32025

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4066

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448166

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32092

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2

Url: http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020920

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4066

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CWE-79

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2008-4066

Date: September 24, 2008

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