CVE-2008-4066

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-09-24
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

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#56325ascript sequence, aka HTML escaped low surrogates bug.

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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

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0908	2008-10-01