CVE-2008-5019

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The session restore feature in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 and 2.x before 2.0.0.18 allows remote attackers to violate the same origin policy to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10
Debian Linux: 4.0
Mozilla Firefox: from 2.0 before 2.0.0.18; from 3.0 before 3.0.4 — fixed in 2.0.0.18, 3.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.18, 3.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32684
http://secunia.com/advisories/32693
http://secunia.com/advisories/32694
http://secunia.com/advisories/32695
http://secunia.com/advisories/32713
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228

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