CVE-2008-5024

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 None
Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 do not properly escape quote characters used for XML processing, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML injection attacks via the default namespace in an E4X document.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2008-5024
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2008-11-13T11:30:01
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-11-02T13:50:11
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-91 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/91.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.0 2.0.0.18
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3.0 3.0.4
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.0 1.1.13
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.0 2.0.0.18
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-58.html Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453915 Exploit Vendor Advisory Issue Tracking
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721 Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32714 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32695 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32694 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32715 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32693 Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 Third Party Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 Broken Link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021192 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32798 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32684 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32713 Third Party Advisory
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32853 Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778 Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9063 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5024
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5024
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:53:57 Added to TrackCVE