CVE-2008-5505

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-12-17

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.

See more information about CVE-2008-5505 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nspr)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nss)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (nspr)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17

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