VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-5024

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability3.64%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-11-13
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 do not properly escape quote characters used for XML processing, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML injection attacks via the default namespace in an E4X document.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-91: XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)

Primary references