Vulnerability Details : CVE-2008-4066

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."
Published 2008-09-24 20:37:05
Updated 2017-09-29 01:31:58
Source Red Hat, Inc.
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Cross site scripting (XSS)

Products affected by CVE-2008-4066

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-4066

EPSS FAQ
95.14%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 99 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2008-4066

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
4.3
 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
8.6
2.9
 NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2008-4066

References for CVE-2008-4066

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