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CVE-2008-0416 Detail

Current Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.

Source:  MITRE      Last Modified:  01/19/2017      View Analysis Description

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-0416
Original release date:
02/11/2008
Last revised:
08/07/2017
Source:
US-CERT/NIST

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:
4.3 MEDIUM
Vector:
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector:
Network exploitable - Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity:
Medium
Authentication:
Not required to exploit
Impact Type:
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink Resource Type Source Name
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html External Source JVN JVN#21563357
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html External Source JVNDB JVNDB-2008-000021
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 External Source SUNALERT 238492
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1 External Source SUNALERT 239546
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484 External Source DEBIAN DSA-1484
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485 External Source DEBIAN DSA-1485
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489 External Source DEBIAN DSA-1489
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml External Source GENTOO GLSA-200805-18
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html External Source CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303 External Source BID 29303
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt External Source TURBO TLSA-2008-9
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1 External Source UBUNTU USN-592-1
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-576-1 External Source UBUNTU USN-576-1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html US Government Resource External Source CERT TA08-087A
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references Vendor Advisory External Source VUPEN ADV-2008-1793
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/references Vendor Advisory External Source VUPEN ADV-2008-2091
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252,381412,407161 External Source MISC https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252,381412,407161
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488 External Source XF firefox-character-encoding-xss(40488)

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)

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