CVE-2008-4066
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav�ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
- EPSS
- 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mozilla:firefox
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx
- http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html