CVE-2008-5506

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-12-17

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy by causing the browser to issue an XMLHttpRequest to an attacker-controlled resource that uses a 302 redirect to a resource in a different domain, then reading content from the response, aka response disclosure.

See more information about CVE-2008-5506 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:	6.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-1037	2008-12-17
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 Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-1037	2008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2009-0002	2009-01-07
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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