CVE-2008-4059 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

CWE-2648 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedSep 24
Latest updateMay 2

Description

The XPConnect component in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 allows remote attackers to "pollute XPCNativeWrappers" and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors related to a SCRIPT element.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox2.0.0.17+56

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-r373-c84r-h3c6: The XPConnect component in Mozilla Firefox before 2↗2022-05-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2008-09-26
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Ubuntu
Firefox and xulrunner regression↗2008-09-25
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2008-09-24
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Ubuntu
Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities↗2008-09-24
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Red Hat
Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution↗2008-09-23
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-4059 Mozilla privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution↗2008-09-22
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