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CVE-2008-5024

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-91

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 do not properly escape quote characters used for XML processing, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML injection attacks via the default namespace in an E4X document.

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
• Mozilla Seamonkey: from 1.0 before 1.1.13 — fixed in 1.1.13
• Mozilla Thunderbird: from 2.0 before 2.0.0.18 — fixed in 2.0.0.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.18, 3.0.4; Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.13; Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.18. 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/32714
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32715
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32798
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

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