CVE-2008-4066

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-4066
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-09-24 20:37:04 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMozilla 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."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: seamonkey-1.1.12-1.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Debian update for xulrunner - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
Ubuntu update for firefox and xulrunner - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Downloads af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 download.novell.com
Slackware update for seamonkey - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Mozilla (SUSE-SA:2008:05 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
USN-645-2: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1669-1 xulrunner af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Debian update for iceweasel - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:206 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
USN-645-1: Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
BlueHat Security Briefings : TARGETED FUZZING af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.technet.com Exploit
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Support | Red Hat af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Slackware update for mozilla-thunderbird - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 slackware.com
Mozilla Firefox/SeaMonkey/Thunderbird Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
USN-647-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Javascript protocol fuzz results af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.thespanner.co.uk Exploit
Security Advisory SA32025 - Ubuntu update for thunderbird - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 jvndb.jvn.jp
Mozilla Firefox Character Processing Bugs Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Sun Solaris Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
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Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1649-1 iceweasel af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Bug 448166 – escaped low surrogates possible XSS hazard in URIs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 slackware.com
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
SUSE update for MozillaFirefox, MozillaThunderbird, seamonkey, and mozilla - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
MFSA 2008-43: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org
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[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: seamonkey-1.1.12-1.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
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