CVE-2008-4066

Mozilla low surrogates stripped from JavaScript before execution

Published Sep 24, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 1.8% KEV · Not listed
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&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1649-1 New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1669-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-4051 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."
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-645-1 Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-645-2 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-647-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx cve-icon cve-icon
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~ cve-icon cve-icon
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32007 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32010 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32012 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32025 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32042 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32044 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32082 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32092 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32144 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32185 cve-icon cve-icon
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
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020920 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript-protocol-fuzz-results/ cve-icon cve-icon
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
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448166 cve-icon cve-icon
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
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 10:00 AM
Reserved
Sep 12, 2008, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 24, 2008, 8:37 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:57 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 23, 2008, 12:00 AM