CVE-2008-4066

N/A Unknown
Published: September 24, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32007
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32010
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32012
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32025
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32042
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32044
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32082
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32092
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32144
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32185
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/32196
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Vendor Advisory
http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32007
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32010
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32012
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32025
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32042
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32044
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32082
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32092
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32144
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32185
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/32196
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020920
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript-protocol-fuzz-results/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448166
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45358
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory

88 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

mozilla