CVE-2008-4065 — Cross-site Scripting in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting9 documents6 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.3%
top 19.96%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+2 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 24
Latest updateMay 2

Description

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."

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox3.0 — 3.0.2+1
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey< 1.1.12
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 2.0.0.17

Also affects: Debian Linux 4.0, Ubuntu Linux 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-xppm-mp6m-c6fw: Mozilla Firefox before 2↗2022-05-02
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CVEList
CVE-2008-4065: Mozilla Firefox before 2↗2008-09-24
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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 BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution↗2008-09-23
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-4065 Mozilla BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution↗2008-09-22
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CVE-2008-4065 — Cross-site Scripting in Mozilla Firefox | cvebase