01 Record
CVE-2009-5017
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6 Beta 3 does not properly handle overlong UTF-8 encoding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a crafted
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6 Beta 3 does not properly handle overlong UTF-8 encoding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a crafted
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
- 1.83% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.6% 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
- 2010-11-12 21:00Z15 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 17:44Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2010-11-12
- 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
- 0b481ed3ff7beaedc9ce453dd0657fe51a933ffc02542b7b1a806da2ea7cb548
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522634
- sirdarckcat.blogspot.comhttp://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-of-unicode-issues-on-php-and.html
- hg.mozilla.orghttp://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0