CVE-2006-2783
Published Jun 2, 2006
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.3
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-79
Evaluator
- Comment
- -
- Impact
- -
- Solution
- -
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "5879A639-89D1-4D9C-9D97-DDA6AB862271",
"versionEndIncluding": "1.5.0.3"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "B80D96C6-E20A-48C4-B9E3-2452B9742F1D",
"versionEndIncluding": "1.5.0.3"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]