4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-0416

Published: 12/02/2008 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox prior to 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird prior to 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey prior to 1.1.8 allow remote malicious users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.

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Vendor Advisories

Various flaws were discovered in the browser and JavaScript engine By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges (CVE-2008-0412, CVE-2008-0413) ...
Alexey Proskuryakov, Yosuke Hasegawa and Simon Montagu discovered flaws in Firefox’s character encoding handling If a user were tricked into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could perform cross-site scripting attacks (CVE-2008-0416) ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0412 Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might al ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird client The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0412 Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engi ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0412 Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engin ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-13 Multiple XSS vulnerabilities from character encoding Announced March 25, 2008 Reporter Alexey Proskuryakov, Yosuke Hasegawa, Simon Montagu Impact Moderate Products Firefox, SeaMonk ...