CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2783

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2006-06-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-06-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 1.5.0.3) • mozilla thunderbird (<= 1.5.0.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References