CVE-2008-5505

Firefox < 3.0.5 - Privacy Restriction Bypass via XUL Persist Attribute

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (15)

Core 15
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

Scores

EPSS 0.0230
EPSS Percentile 81.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (5)
mozilla/firefox 3.0
mozilla/firefox 3.0.1
mozilla/firefox 3.0.2
mozilla/firefox 3.0.3
mozilla/firefox < 3.0.4
Published Dec 17, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026