National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5513
Original release date:12/17/2008
Last revised:04/16/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in the session-restore feature in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19 allows remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy, inject content into documents associated with other domains, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unknown vectors related to restoration of SessionStore data.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: XF
Name: firefox-sessionrestore-security-bypass(47418)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0977
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-690-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-690-2
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021421
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/mfsa2008-69.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:245
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:244
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1707
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 256408
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33523
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33421
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33231
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33216
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33203
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33189
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33188
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33184