CVE-2008-0416

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.

Category

4.3
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 6.63% Top 10%
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Affected: n/a n/a
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References

Link Tags
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29541 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488 vdb entry
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30620 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28865 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28879 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30327 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1 vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489 vendor advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1 vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28864 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485 vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references vdb entry vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/references vdb entry vendor advisory
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html third party advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html third party advisory us government resource
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484 vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303 vdb entry
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31043 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28839 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/ vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2008-0416?
CVE-2008-0416 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2008-0416?
To fix CVE-2008-0416, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2008-0416 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2008-0416 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~7% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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