CVE-2008-5503

Severity

26%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

48%

The loadBindingDocument function in Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 does not perform any security checks related to the same-domain policy, which allows remote attackers to read or access data from other domains via crafted XBL bindings.

The loadBindingDocument function in Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 does not perform any security checks related to the same-domain policy, which allows remote attackers to read or access data from other domains via crafted XBL bindings.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-17 23:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-03 21:56:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

2.0

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1

2.0.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2

2.0.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3

2.0.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

2.0.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5

2.0.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6

2.0.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7

2.0.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8

2.0.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9

2.0.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10

2.0.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

2.0.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12

2.0.0.12

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13

2.0.0.13

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14

2.0.0.14

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15

2.0.0.15

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16

2.0.0.16

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.17

2.0.0.17

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0

1.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.1

1.0.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.2

1.0.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.3

1.0.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.5

1.0.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.6

1.0.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.7

1.0.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.8

1.0.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.9

1.0.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1

1.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1 alpha

1.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1 beta

1.1

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.1

1.1.1

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.2

1.1.2

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.3

1.1.3

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.4

1.1.4

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.5

1.1.5

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.6

1.1.6

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.7

1.1.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.8

1.1.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.9

1.1.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.10

1.1.10

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.11

1.1.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.12

1.1.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.0

2.0.0.0

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4

2.0.0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.5

2.0.0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6

2.0.0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.9

2.0.0.9

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12

2.0.0.12

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14

2.0.0.14

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16

2.0.0.16

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17

2.0.0.17

Mozilla Thunderbird

References

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DSA-1696

DSA-1697

DSA-1704

DSA-1707

MDVSA-2008:244

MDVSA-2009:012

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-61.html

RHSA-2008:1037

RHSA-2009:0002

32882

1021424

USN-690-2

USN-701-1

USN-701-2

ADV-2009-0977

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379959

mozilla-xbl-information-disclosure(47409)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11423

USN-690-3

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