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CVE-2008-5508

CVSS v2.0 4.3 (Medium)
43% Progress
EPSS 0.28 % (69th)
0.28% Progress
Affected Products 5
Advisories 13
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Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 does not properly parse URLs with leading whitespace or control characters, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks.

Weaknesses
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
Related CVEs
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2008-12-17 23:30:00
(15 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-11-08 20:12:21
(5 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Mozilla

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Mozilla Firefox from 2.0 version and prior 2.0.0.19 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox >= 2.0 < 2.0.0.19
  Mozilla Firefox from 3.0 version and prior 3.0.5 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox >= 3.0 < 3.0.5
  Mozilla Seamonkey from 1.0 version and prior 1.1.14 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey >= 1.0 < 1.1.14
  Mozilla Thunderbird from 2.0 version and prior 2.0.0.19 version cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird >= 2.0 < 2.0.0.19

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.06 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts
  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
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 4.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0
  Debian Linux 5.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0