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CVE-2008-5506

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…

Description

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."

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By redhat

  2. · 5 days later

    Published

  3. · 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2008-5506, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

References

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Sources

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