PT-2008-6575 · Mozilla+2 · Thunderbird+4

Jesse Ruderman · Published 2008-12-17 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2008-5508

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x before 3.0.5 Mozilla Firefox versions 2.x before 2.0.0.19 Thunderbird versions 2.x before 2.0.0.19 SeaMonkey versions 1.x before 1.1.14

Description The issue is related to improper URL parsing, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks by using URLs with leading whitespace or control characters.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x before 3.0.5, update to version 3.0.5 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 2.x before 2.0.0.19, update to version 2.0.0.19 or later. For Thunderbird versions 2.x before 2.0.0.19, update to version 2.0.0.19 or later. For SeaMonkey versions 1.x before 1.1.14, update to version 1.1.14 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5508

DSA-1696-1

DSA-1697-1

DSA-1704-1

DSA-1707-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

RHSA-2008:1036

RHSA-2008:1037

RHSA-2008_1036

RHSA-2008_1037

RHSA-2009:0002

RHSA-2009_0002

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

References · 1446

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_tostring_console_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_attribchildremoved.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_webidl_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechange.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proto_crmfrequest.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_svg_plugin.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_xmlserializer.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_reduceright.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_nssvgvalue.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_interleaved_write.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/vlad902/annotated-fbi-tbb-exploit · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/argp/cve-2011-3026-firefox · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mk219533/CVE-2010-1205 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/johnwchadwick/cve-2009-3555-test-server · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02789 · Security Note