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CVE-2008-5513 Detail

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the session-restore feature in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19 allows remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy, inject content into documents associated with other domains, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unknown vectors related to restoration of SessionStore data.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  12/17/2008

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized modification

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-69.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021421
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47418
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10389
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10389
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10389

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

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

Change History

4 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-5513
NVD Published Date:
12/17/2008
NVD Last Modified:
10/03/2018