CVE-2008-5505

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.4; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994

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