CVE-2008-0416
Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey XSS Encoder Bypass
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Feb. 12, 2008, 3 a.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
8.6
Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2008-0416
vulnerability.
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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CVE-2008-0416.
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The following list is the news that have been mention
CVE-2008-0416 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2008-0416 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html Added Reference http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28839 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28864 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28865 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28879 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/29541 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/30327 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/30620 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31043 Added Reference http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 Added Reference http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489 Added Reference http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303 Added Reference http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1 Added Reference http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/references Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488 Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/ -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed 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. 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. -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 13, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed 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. 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. Removed Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252,381412,407161 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 03, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-576-1 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/ [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 08, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/40488 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 16, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed 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. 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. -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Feb. 12, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-0416 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2008-0416
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
6.63 }} -5.82%
score
0.90281
percentile