CVE-2008-5505
published 2008-12-17CVE-2008-5505: Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and…
PriorityP425medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCPINAN
EPSS
2.30%
81.5th percentile
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.
Affected
5 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | <= 3.0.4 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
vendor_ubuntu10.0CRITICAL
vendor_redhat5.0MEDIUM
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GHSA
GHSA-7v9j-67p6-63jv: Mozilla Firefox 3
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2008-5505 [MEDIUM] GHSA-7v9j-67p6-63jv: Mozilla Firefox 3
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.
Ubuntu
Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2008-12-17·CVSS 10.0
CVE-2008-5502 [CRITICAL] Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine. These problems could allow
an attacker to crash the browser and possibly execute arbitrary code with user
privileges. (CVE-2008-5500, CVE-2008-5501, CVE-2008-5502)
It was discovered that Firefox did not properly handle persistent cookie data.
If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website, an attacker could
write persistent data in the user's browser and track the user across browsing
sessions. (CVE-2008-5505)
Marius Schilder discovered that Firefox did not properly handle redirects to
an outside domain when an XMLHttpRequest was made to a same-origin resource.
It's possible that sensitive information could be revealed in the
XMLHttpR
Red Hat
Firefox 3 User tracking via XUL persist attribute
vendor_redhat·2008-12-16·CVSS 5.0
CVE-2008-5505 [MEDIUM] Firefox 3 User tracking via XUL persist attribute
Firefox 3 User tracking via XUL persist attribute
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188http://secunia.com/advisories/33203http://secunia.com/advisories/33216http://secunia.com/advisories/34501http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/http://secunia.com/advisories/33188http://secunia.com/advisories/33203http://secunia.com/advisories/33216http://secunia.com/advisories/34501http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
2008-12-17
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