01 Record
CVE-2008-5505
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to
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
- 2.29% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.7% 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
- Low. 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
- 2008-12-17 23:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:56Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-12-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5d4bafade03b0d895b36ee8bee8b1ac91b48315ce5c095be9a4c64eeb5108041
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com32882http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994
- www.securitytracker.com1021428http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2008:1036http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-0977http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:245http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-690-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
- secunia.com33203http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
- secunia.com33216http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
- sunsolve.sun.com256408http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comfirefox-xul-weak-security(47411)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411
- secunia.com33188http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10443https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443
- secunia.com34501http://secunia.com/advisories/34501