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CVE-2008-4065

CVSS v2.0 4.3 (Medium)
43% Progress
EPSS 96.29 % (100th)
96.29% Progress
Affected Products 5
Advisories 12
Info CVSS EPSS CAPEC Affected Configurations References Security Advisories Packages & Software Tools, Exploits & PoC Graph Web & Social Timeline

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via byte order mark (BOM) characters that are removed from JavaScript code before execution, aka "Stripped BOM characters bug."

Weaknesses
CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2008-09-24 20:37:04
(16 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-11-01 16:22:52
(5 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Mozilla

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Mozilla Firefox prior 2.0.0.17 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox < 2.0.0.17
  Mozilla Firefox from 3.0 version and prior 3.0.2 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox >= 3.0 < 3.0.2
  Mozilla Seamonkey prior 1.1.12 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey < 1.1.12
  Mozilla Thunderbird prior 2.0.0.17 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird < 2.0.0.17

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 4.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.06 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts