CVE-2006-2783

CVE Details

Release Date:2006-06-02
Impact:Moderate What is this?

Description


Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

See more information about CVE-2006-2783 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.


CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score: 4.3
Vector String: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version: 2.0
Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Medium
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: None

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)ELSA-2006-06112006-12-07


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