CVE-2008-4066 in Firefox

Summary

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."

Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

• Reservation: 09/12/2008
• Disclosure: 09/24/2008
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-44186 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-79 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.3
• EPSS: 0.01204
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4066
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4066
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-4066/