CVE-2008-5508

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.3
MODERATE
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
2.182

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in Mozilla Firefox (x64) 3.0.4Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.9Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in Mozilla_Firefox 3.0.4Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in SeaMonkey 1.1.9Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Firefox (x64) 2.0.0.18Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla Firefox (x64) 3.0.4Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla_Firefox 2.0.0.18Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Mozilla_Firefox 3.0.4Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Mozilla Firefox For Mac 2.0.0.19Mac

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-341197SeaMonkey (2.53.19)
PATCH-613630Mozilla Firefox For Mac (147.0.4)

References

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