Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T18:06:25.809Z
Reserved: 2006-06-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-2783

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-06-02T19:02:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2006-2783
