CVE-2008-4066

Published Sep 24, 2008

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

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

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "863C140E-DC15-4A88-AB8A-8AEF9F4B8164"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "38CD049A-5333-4FF7-AD34-6B74E19BADCB"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "0066576D-D66A-4B59-B5C3-471EEBEE8B9A"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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