CVE-2008-5019 — Cross-site Scripting in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting5 documents5 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
12.8%
top 5.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedNov 13
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The session restore feature in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 and 2.x before 2.0.0.18 allows remote attackers to violate the same origin policy to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox2.0 — 2.0.0.18+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 4.0, Ubuntu Linux 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-w542-59hv-5363: The session restore feature in Mozilla Firefox 3↗2022-05-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities↗2008-11-17
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Red Hat
Mozilla XSS via session restore↗2008-11-12
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-5019 Mozilla XSS via session restore↗2008-11-10
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