CVE-2008-5506

Firefox XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure

Published Dec 17, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS 2.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy by causing the browser to issue an XMLHttpRequest to an attacker-controlled resource that uses a 302 redirect to a resource in a different domain, then reading content from the response, aka "response disclosure."

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1696-1 New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1697-1 New iceape packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1704-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1707-1 New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-5483 Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy by causing the browser to issue an XMLHttpRequest to an attacker-controlled resource that uses a 302 redirect to a resource in a different domain, then reading content from the response, aka "response disclosure."
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-690-1 Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-690-2 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-690-3 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-701-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-701-2 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/33184 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33189 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33204 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33205 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33231 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33232 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33408 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33415 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33421 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33523 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33547 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35080 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-64.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021427 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458248 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47412 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5506 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10512 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-3/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5506 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 10:56 AM
Reserved
Dec 12, 2008, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 17, 2008, 11:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:00 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Dec 16, 2008, 12:00 AM