National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5505

Overview

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994

External Source: XF

Name: firefox-xul-weak-security(47411)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47411

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0977

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-690-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-690-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021428

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428

External Source: BID

Name: 32882

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:1036

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:245

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 256408

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34501

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33216

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33216

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33203

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33203

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33188

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33188

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10443

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10443

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10443

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10443