CVE-2008-0416

Firefox < 2.0.0.11, SeaMonkey < 1.1.7, Thunderbird < 2.0.0.11 - Cross-Site Scripting via Character Encoding Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.

References (26)

Core 26
Core References
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_turbo
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/29541
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_jvndb
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/30620
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28865
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28879
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/30327
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28864
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/references
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_jvn
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31043
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28839
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/

Scores

EPSS 0.0162
EPSS Percentile 73.4%

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
mozilla/firefox < 2.0.0.11
mozilla/seamonkey < 1.1.7
mozilla/thunderbird < 2.0.0.11
Published Feb 12, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026