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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5506

Original release date:12/17/2008
Last revised:05/23/2009
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy by causing the browser to issue an XMLHttpRequest to an attacker-controlled resource that uses a 302 redirect to a resource in a different domain, then reading content from the response, aka "response disclosure."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:6.8 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458248
External Source: XF
Name: mozilla-xmlhttprequest-302-info-disclosure(47412)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0977
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-690-3
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-690-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-690-2
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021427
External Source: BID
Name: 32882
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0002
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:1037
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:1036
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-64.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:012
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:245
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:244
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1707
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1704
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1697
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1696
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 258748
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 256408
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35080
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33547
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33523
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33434
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33433
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33421
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33232
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33231
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33216
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33205
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33204
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33203
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33189
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33188
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33184

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:3.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.17
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.16
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.15
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.14
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.13
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.12
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.11
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.10
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.9
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.8
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.7
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.17
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.16
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.14
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.12
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.9
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.7
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.8
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.9
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1:alpha
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1:beta
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.7
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.8
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.9
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.10
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.11
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.12
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.4 and previous versions
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:2.0.0.18 and previous versions
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.18 and previous versions
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.1.13 and previous versions
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Technical Details

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  • Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)