PT-2008-6579 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Moz_Bug_R_A4 · CVE-2008-5513 · Published 2008-12-17 · Updated 2023-02-13

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 2.x through 2.0.0.18 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x through 3.0.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy, inject content into documents associated with other domains, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unknown vectors related to restoration of SessionStore data.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 2.x through 2.0.0.18, update to version 2.0.0.19 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x through 3.0.4, update to version 3.0.5 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5513

DSA-1707-1

RHSA-2008:1036

RHSA-2008:1037

RHSA-2008_1036

RHSA-2008_1037

RHSA-2009:0002

RHSA-2009_0002

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

References · 41

• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-69.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5513 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33421 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021421 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5512 · Note