Release Date: | 2006-06-02 | |
Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
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.
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 |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird) | ELSA-2006-0611 | 2006-12-07 |
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