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.

Risk Information

Base Score
6.1
MODERATE
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
4.975

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in Mozilla Firefox (x64) 1.5.0.3Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.3Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in Mozilla_Firefox 1.5.0.3Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.2Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Firefox (x64) 1.5.0.3Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla_Firefox 1.5.0.3Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Firefox for Mac 1.5.0.3Mac
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac 1.5.0.2Mac

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-343016Mozilla Firefox (x64) (132.0.2)
PATCH-315938Mozilla Thunderbird (68.12.0)
PATCH-343015Mozilla Firefox (132.0.2)
PATCH-611870Mozilla Firefox For Mac (142.0.1)
PATCH-611807Mozilla Thunderbird For Mac (142.0)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234