CVE-2008-0416

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.11
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.7
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.11

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28839
http://secunia.com/advisories/28864
http://secunia.com/advisories/28865
http://secunia.com/advisories/28879
http://secunia.com/advisories/29541
http://secunia.com/advisories/30327
http://secunia.com/advisories/30620
http://secunia.com/advisories/31043
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1

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