CVE-2006-2783

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

Weakness classification

• CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org
• cve@mitre.org
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory