CVE-2008-4066

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 24, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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