Multiple XSS vulnerabilities from character encoding — Mozilla

2008-03-2500:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

0.009

Percentile

83.0%

JSON

WebKit developer Alexey Proskuryakov reported that the Mozilla HTML parser treated the backspace character as whitespace contrary to the HTML specification and different from other browsers. This difference might lead to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) risks on sites which filtered input in accordance with the specification.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<2.0.0.12

mozillaseamonkeyRange<1.1.8

mozillathunderbirdRange<2.0.0.12

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillathunderbird*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	seamonkey	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::
mozilla	thunderbird	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird::::::::