CVE-2008-4066
Mozilla Firefox Privilege Escalation XSS
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�ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
INFO
Published Date :
Sept. 24, 2008, 8:37 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
8.6
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx Added Reference http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~ Added Reference http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html Added Reference http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31984 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31985 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32007 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32010 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32012 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32025 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32042 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32044 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32082 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32092 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32144 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32185 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32196 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 Added Reference http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422 Added Reference http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232 Added Reference http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123 Added Reference http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020920 Added Reference http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript-protocol-fuzz-results/ Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448166 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45358 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8880 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8880 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8880 [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/45358 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45358 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Sep. 25, 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-2008-4066 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-2008-4066
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
7.09 }} 0.15%
score
0.90687
percentile