CVE-2008-0416
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
26
- TLSA-2008-9 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TURBOx_transferred
- 29541 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- firefox-character-encoding-xss(40488) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- JVNDB-2008-000021 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDBx_transferred
- 30620 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28865 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28879 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30327 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 238492 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- USN-592-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-1489 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 239546 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 28864 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1485 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1793 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2091 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- JVN#21563357 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
- TA08-087A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1484 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 29303 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-200805-18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 31043 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28839 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-576-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-0426 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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