CVE-2008-4060

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to create documents that lack script-handling objects, and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges, via vectors related to (1) the document.loadBindingDocument function and (2) XSLT.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.16; 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+46)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.11; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+9)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.16; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+54)

References

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985
http://secunia.com/advisories/31987
http://secunia.com/advisories/32007
http://secunia.com/advisories/32010
http://secunia.com/advisories/32011
http://secunia.com/advisories/32012
http://secunia.com/advisories/32025
http://secunia.com/advisories/32042
http://secunia.com/advisories/32044

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