CVE-2008-5506

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

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."

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."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-17 23:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-11-08 20:12:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla SeaMonkey

Mozilla Thunderbird

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS (Long-Term Support)

6.06

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.10

7.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

8.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.10

8.10

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

4.0

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0

5.0

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