Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
References
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http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html cve-icon cve-icon
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
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http://secunia.com/advisories/32092 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32144 cve-icon cve-icon
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http://secunia.com/advisories/32196 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422 cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45358 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4066 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8880 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4066 cve-icon
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-09-24T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:00:42.435Z

Reserved: 2008-09-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-4066

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-09-24T20:37:04.737

Modified: 2017-09-29T01:31:58.493

Link: CVE-2008-4066

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-09-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-4066 - Bugzilla