CVE-2008-4065
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via byte order mark (BOM) characters that are removed from JavaScript code before execution, aka "Stripped BOM characters bug."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31984Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31985Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31987Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32007Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32010Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32011Advisory