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Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 2, 2006
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2006-2783

GHSA ID

GHSA-776f-3rrc-fhxf

Source code

No known source code

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