CVE-2008-4066
N/A
Published: September 24, 2008 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFirefox
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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�ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (44)
x_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspxx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_JVN
Source: [email protected]
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_JVNDB
Source: [email protected]
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/32007Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-79
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