CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4066

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 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox 2.0.0.14 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.15 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.16

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References