National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5024
Original release date:11/13/2008
Last revised:10/31/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-319A
Name: TA08-319A
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-9669
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-9667
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453915
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0977
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3146
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021192
External Source: BID
Name: 32281
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0978
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0977
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0976
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-58.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:235
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:230
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:228
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1697
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1696
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1671
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1669
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-667-1
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 256408
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33434
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33433
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32853
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32845
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32798
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32778
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32721
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32715
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32714
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32713
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32695
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32694
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32693
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32684
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9063
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:055
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9063
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5