CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4065

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2008-09-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-09-24
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 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."

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (< 2.0.0.17) • mozilla firefox (>= 3.0 < 3.0.2) • mozilla seamonkey (< 1.1.12) • mozilla thunderbird (< 2.0.0.17) • debian debian linux 4.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References