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CVE-2008-5024

CVE Details

Release Date:2008-11-13
Impact:Low What is this?

Description


Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 do not properly escape quote characters used for XML processing, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML injection attacks via the default namespace in an E4X document.

See more information about CVE-2008-5024 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: 7.5
Vector String: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version: 2.0
Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: Partial

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-09772008-11-13
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-09772008-11-13
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)ELSA-2008-09762008-11-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)ELSA-2008-09782008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)ELSA-2008-09782008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)ELSA-2008-09782008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)ELSA-2008-09782008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)ELSA-2008-09782008-11-13


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