PT-2008-6572 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Published 2008-12-17 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2008-5505

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x before 3.0.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions. This is achieved by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x before 3.0.5, update to version 3.0.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5505

RHSA-2008:1036

RHSA-2008_1036

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

References · 28

• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5505 · Security Note
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5507 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5510 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021428 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32882 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5512 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5511 · Note