CVE-2008-5024

critical

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.

References

Advisories
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9063

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

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021192

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1

http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

http://secunia.com/advisories/33434

http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

http://secunia.com/advisories/32853

http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

http://secunia.com/advisories/32798

http://secunia.com/advisories/32778

http://secunia.com/advisories/32721

http://secunia.com/advisories/32715

http://secunia.com/advisories/32714

http://secunia.com/advisories/32713

http://secunia.com/advisories/32695

http://secunia.com/advisories/32694

http://secunia.com/advisories/32693

http://secunia.com/advisories/32684

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-58.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-11-13

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05012