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CVE-2008-4066

Medium

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."

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedSep 24, 2008
First seenSep 24, 2008

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefox2.0.0.14, 2.0.0.15, 2.0.0.16—

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