CVE-2008-0417

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 allows remote user-assisted web sites to corrupt the user's password store via newlines that are not properly handled when the user saves a password.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.11

References

http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28766
http://secunia.com/advisories/28818
http://secunia.com/advisories/28839
http://secunia.com/advisories/28864
http://secunia.com/advisories/28865
http://secunia.com/advisories/28877
http://secunia.com/advisories/28879
http://secunia.com/advisories/28924
http://secunia.com/advisories/28939
http://secunia.com/advisories/28958

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