Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (26)

• TLSA-2008-9 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TURBOx_transferred
• 29541 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• firefox-character-encoding-xss(40488) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• JVNDB-2008-000021 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDBx_transferred
• 30620 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 28865 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 28879 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 30327 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 238492 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• USN-592-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-1489 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 239546 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• 28864 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1485 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• ADV-2008-1793 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2091 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• JVN#21563357 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
• TA08-087A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-1484 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 29303 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• GLSA-200805-18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 31043 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 28839 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-576-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 07:46 UTC.