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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 cookies.

Published

2008-12-17T23:30:00.547

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	≤ 3.0.4	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox	3.0	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox	3.0.1	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox	3.0.2	Yes
Application	mozilla	firefox	3.0.3	Yes

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 ([email protected])
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 ([email protected])
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994 ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443 ([email protected])
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)