CVE-2008-0416: mozilla firefox Cross-site Scripting
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2008-0416 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 6Timeline
- 12-02-2008PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
1.62%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
76%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.62% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Mozilla3 products
- firefox≤ 2.0.0.11
- seamonkey≤ 1.1.7
- thunderbird≤ 2.0.0.11
1 vendor · 3 products
References
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- bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161X Refsource MISC
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.htmlThird Party AdvisoryX Refsource CERTUS Government Resource
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM