CVE-2008-5508

Published Dec 17, 2008

Last updated 6 months ago

Overview

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 does not properly parse URLs with leading whitespace or control characters, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified
Products
firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird, ubuntu_linux, debian_linux

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.3
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.