CVE-2009-5017

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6 Beta 3 does not properly handle overlong UTF-8 encoding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a crafted string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1210.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2009-5017
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2010-11-12T22:00:01
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2010-12-01T05:00:00
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3.6
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859 Patch
http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-of-unicode-issues-on-php-and.html Exploit
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522634
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-5017
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5017
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 11:08:10 Added to TrackCVE