CVE-2006-2783
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site
02 Description
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.67% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 76.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-06-02 19:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 18:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-06-02
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2cab049993c069755ddb3c497e666200706845a15f4e3ed84214332883eaca1d
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com20709http://secunia.com/advisories/20709
- secunia.com21176http://secunia.com/advisories/21176
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:145http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:145
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-3748http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-297-3https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-296-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-1/
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-323-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/323-1/
- secunia.com20561http://secunia.com/advisories/20561
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2009-06-08-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
- secunia.com21210http://secunia.com/advisories/21210
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0594http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0594.html
- secunia.com21336http://secunia.com/advisories/21336
- secunia.com20382http://secunia.com/advisories/20382
- securitytracker.com1016214http://securitytracker.com/id?1016214
- www.securityfocus.com20060602 rPSA-2006-0091-1 firefox thunderbirdhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435795/100/0/threaded
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-3749http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-1522http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0610http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0610.html
- secunia.com20376http://secunia.com/advisories/20376
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:146http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:146
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0609http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.html
- secunia.com21178http://secunia.com/advisories/21178
- securitytracker.com1016202http://securitytracker.com/id?1016202
- secunia.com21607http://secunia.com/advisories/21607
- www.securityfocus.com18228http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18228
- secunia.com21532http://secunia.com/advisories/21532
- secunia.com21270http://secunia.com/advisories/21270
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-0083http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
- secunia.com21188http://secunia.com/advisories/21188
- secunia.com21134http://secunia.com/advisories/21134
- secunia.com21631http://secunia.com/advisories/21631
- www.securityfocus.comSSRT061181http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded
- www.securityfocus.comSSRT061236http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded
- secunia.com35379http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-296-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-2/
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200606-21http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-21.xml
- www.debian.orgDSA-1118http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118
- www.debian.orgDSA-1120http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0611http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0611.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commozilla-bom-utf8-xss(26852)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26852
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2008-07-11http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-1134http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200606-12http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-12.xml
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10772https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10772
- secunia.com21324http://secunia.com/advisories/21324
- secunia.com21183http://secunia.com/advisories/21183
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2094http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references
- secunia.com22066http://secunia.com/advisories/22066
- secunia.com21269http://secunia.com/advisories/21269
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2006:035http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_35_mozilla.html
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-297-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-1/
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0578http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0578.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-2106http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2106
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:143http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:143
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-42.html
- secunia.com22065http://secunia.com/advisories/22065
- secunia.com31074http://secunia.com/advisories/31074
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- thunderbird Fixed in 1.5.0.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- thunderbird Fixed in 1.5.0.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- thunderbird Fixed in 1.5.0.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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