cve-2008-5505
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-17 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:56
Severity ?
Summary
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33188
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33203
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33216
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/34501
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
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