7.5

CVE-2008-4060: mozilla firefox

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
Published 24-09-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-4060 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 4.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.80%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7
DSA-1649-1DSA-1669-1DSA-1696-1DSA-1697-1RHSA-2008:0879RHSA-2008:0882

Timeline

  1. 24-09-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to create documents that lack script-handling objects, and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges, via vectors related to (1) the document.loadBindingDocument function and (2) XSLT.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

4.80%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

92%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 4.80% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
4.80%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Mozilla3 products
  • firefox≤ 2.0.0.16 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9:rc | 0.9.1 | 0.9.2 | 0.9.3 | 0.9_rc | 0.10 | 0.10.1 | 1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.8 | 1.5 | 1.5:beta1 | 1.5:beta2 | 1.5.0.1 | 1.5.0.2 | 1.5.0.3 | 1.5.0.4 | 1.5.0.5 | 1.5.0.6 | 1.5.0.7 | 1.5.0.8 | 1.5.0.9 | 1.5.0.10 | 1.5.0.11 | 1.5.0.12 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.2 | 1.5.3 | 1.5.4 | 1.5.5 | 1.5.6 | 1.5.7 | 1.5.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.0.0.1 | 2.0.0.10 | 2.0.0.11 | 2.0.0.12 | 2.0.0.13 | 2.0.0.14 | 2.0.0.15 | 3.0 | 3.0.1
  • seamonkey≤ 1.1.11 | 1.0 | 1.0:beta | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.9 | 1.0.99 | 1.1 | 1.1.1 | 1.1.10
  • thunderbird≤ 2.0.0.16 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.5:beta | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.8 | 1.5 | 1.5:beta2 | 1.5.0.1 | 1.5.0.2 | 1.5.0.3 | 1.5.0.4 | 1.5.0.6 | 1.5.0.7 | 1.5.0.8 | 1.5.0.9 | 1.5.0.10 | 1.5.0.11 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.2 | 1.7.1 | 1.7.3 | 2.0.0.0 | 2.0.0.1 | 2.0.0.2 | 2.0.0.3 | 2.0.0.4 | 2.0.0.5 | 2.0.0.6 | 2.0.0.8 | 2.0.0.9 | 2.0.0.11 | 2.0.0.12 | 2.0.0.13 | 2.0.0.14 | 2.0.0.15 | 2.0_.4 | 2.0_.5 | 2.0_.6 | 2.0_.9 | 2.0_.12 | 2.0_.13 | 2.0_.14 | 2.0_8

1 vendor · 3 products

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