CVE-2008-5506

medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy by causing the browser to issue an XMLHttpRequest to an attacker-controlled resource that uses a 302 redirect to a resource in a different domain, then reading content from the response, aka "response disclosure."

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458248

http://secunia.com/advisories/33184

http://secunia.com/advisories/33188

http://secunia.com/advisories/33189

http://secunia.com/advisories/33203

http://secunia.com/advisories/33204

http://secunia.com/advisories/33205

http://secunia.com/advisories/33216

http://secunia.com/advisories/33231

http://secunia.com/advisories/33232

http://secunia.com/advisories/33408

http://secunia.com/advisories/33415

http://secunia.com/advisories/33421

http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

http://secunia.com/advisories/33434

http://secunia.com/advisories/33523

http://secunia.com/advisories/33547

http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

http://secunia.com/advisories/35080

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47412

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10512

https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-3/

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

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244

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

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-64.html

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

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021427

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-12-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium