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CVE-2008-0416 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html	CVE
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html	CVE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/28839	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28864	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28865	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28879	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29541	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30327	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30620	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31043	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488	CVE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1	CVE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1	CVE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/	CVE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484	CVE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485	CVE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489	CVE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml	CVE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303	CVE
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt	CVE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1	CVE
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html	CVE	US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/references	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html	[email protected]
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/28839	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28864	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28865	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28879	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29541	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30327	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30620	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31043	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488	[email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1	[email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1	[email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/	[email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484	[email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485	[email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489	[email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml	[email protected]
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303	[email protected]
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt	[email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1	[email protected]
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html	[email protected]	US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/references	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-79	Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mozilla firefox	<= 2.0.0.11
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
mozilla seamonkey	<= 1.1.7
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
mozilla thunderbird	<= 2.0.0.11
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 13, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 3, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 8, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 16, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 12, 2008	Initial Analysis	[email protected]

CVE-2008-0416 Details

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