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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-4066 Detail

Current 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."


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32007 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32010 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32012 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32025 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32042 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32044 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32082 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32092 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32144 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32185 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/32196 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020920 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript-protocol-fuzz-results/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448166 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45358 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8880 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-4066
NVD Published Date:
09/24/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.