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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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2783 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10772 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-2/ cve-icon cve-icon
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/ cve-icon cve-icon
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https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2783 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-06-02T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T18:06:25.809Z

Reserved: 2006-06-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-2783

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-06-02T19:02:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:12:04.450

Link: CVE-2006-2783

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2006-06-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-2783 - Bugzilla