CVE-2008-4066

Mozilla Firefox - XSS

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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."

References (44)

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206

[Vendor Advisory] http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232

[Vendor Advisory] http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123

[Exploit] http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx

[Various Sources] http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~

[Third Party Advisory] http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/31984

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/31985

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32007

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32010

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32012

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32025

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32042

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32044

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32082

... and 24 more

Scores

EPSS 0.0120

EPSS Percentile 78.7%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (4)

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Sep 24, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026